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Over the past decade, ATA has seen tremendous change but has navigated it all while successfully advancing a mission to enact a broad-based, pro-trucking agenda built on common sense.

As a kid who grew up witnessing the grit, hustle and compassion required of my parents to survive (and occasionally thrive) in a trucking business, I often get emotional reflecting on my term as chair of ATA.

The greatest hurdle to the widespread adoption of medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles is the most difficult to overcome: an underlying lack of trust and faith in ZEVs.

Few issues are of greater importance to our industry than the rights of independent truckers. Unfortunately, special interests are fully invested in taking those rights away.

The race for lithium, the lifeblood of modern batteries, is on. Spurred by the adoption of electric vehicles, the use of lithium has extended to the trucking industry.

One of my guiding principles, both personally and professionally, is to fix the problem. The commercial truck industry definitely has a problem to fix, writes ATD Chairman Scott Pearson.

Increasingly, trucking companies' search for truck drivers is moving beyond U.S. borders as immigration programs become a greater focal point.

At a time when our political system has grown so adversarial, I believe trucking threads a needle of common purpose.

Last month, ATA reached its 90th year. For nine decades, ATA and its 50 state trucking associations have been the leading voice for our industry in Washington and every state Capitol.

Four decades in trucking have shown me how much opportunity this industry creates.