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THEY SAID IT

“LET’S GET OUT THERE “2019 was an OK

AND KICK SOME ASS.” session for truckers.

—American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear on addressing tort reform We actually did
and trial attorneys in the coming months during the conclusion of his address to
attendees at the 2019 American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & pretty well. It was
Exhibition
a great session

“We’re taking clients for trial lawyers,

through the stages deadbeats, stoners

of grief. They’re in and felons.”

denial; they’re angry. —Paul Enos, CEO of the Nevada
Trucking Association and co-chairman
of the Controlled Substances, Health
Eventually you get to and Wellness Subcommittee, on a panel
about trucking’s response to legalized
marijuana around the country at the
acceptance that this is 2019 American Trucking Associations’
Management Conference & Exhibition

U.S. trade policy.”

—Ted Murphy, a trade attorney at Sidley Austin LLP, on the complicated
appeals process for companies filing exemptions to the Office of the U.S. Trade “The
Representative
steering

“I guess I’m the wheel

Meryl Streep of knows no

generals.” gender.”

—Deb La Bree, a Missouri native and

—Former Defense Secretary James Mattis jokes after Pres. Trump called Mattis truck driver since 2007, to the Wall
‘overrated.’ Street Journal

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