trucking News Updates

Business

Opinion: Moving Forward Despite Industry Challenges

In 1933, my grandfather, James Russell Hahn, founded Hahn Transportation on the understanding that trucking was essential, especially to Maryland farmers who needed to move the crops from the fields to the canneries, the milk to the creameries, and coal or oil to the homes, schools and hospitals for heat.

October 29, 2010
Business

ATA Seeks Financial Support for Capitol Hill Office

PHOENIX — To pay down some of the debt incurred to build its new Capitol Hill office complex, American Trucking Associations is offering members the chance to purchase commemorative pavers on the building’s rooftop patio.

October 25, 2010
Business

ATA Taps Former Staffer Phillips to Be Federation’s Top Lobbyist

American Trucking Associations said it has hired Mary Phillips as its new senior vice president of legislative affairs.

October 17, 2010
Business

MATS Signs 10-Year Extension to Remain in Louisville

The Mid-America Trucking Show, set to run Thursday through Saturday in Louisville, Ky., will remain in that city for another 10 years, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

March 23, 2010

Opinion: Trucking Is Overtaxed

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. The trucking industry is being overtaxed. Federal and state tax liabilities are rising at a more rapid rate for trucking than for the air and rail carriers with which motor carriers compete.

February 10, 2006