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“ THEy SaId IT”

“Their leadership was instrumental “On the same day
in paving the way for the trucking the electorate voted

industry as a whole to come
around to doing it.” Republicans into the

Jackie gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, and sometime majorities of both
critic of the trucking industry, on the role that the five trucking companies making up
the Alliance for driver Safety & Security, Inc. had in persuading Congress to require
electronic on-board recorders in all commercial trucks. the state senate

“This new Freight Policy Council and house, they

provides the roadmap our nation also approved a

needs to stay competitive and grow tax increase.”

our trade economy.” lane kidd, president of the

ArkansasTrucking Association, on the
u.s. sen. maria Cantwell (d-Wash.) on a plan by the U.S. dept. of Transportation to passage of a sales tax increase in
develop a national strategy for improving the efficiency of freight movement in the Arkansas dedicated to highways.
United States.

“The only thing “We’re hiring drivers with

we’re guilty of less experience than ever

is being in the before, but due to our

wrong place investment in training and

at the wrong technology, today’s drivers

time.” are putting up better safety

ray kuntz, president of montana- numbers than ever before.”
based A. Watkins & Shepard on his
company being penalized under
the current CSA program after his steve Williams, CEO of maverick USA, in an address at the University of Central
truck was recently hit head-on by a Arkansas on ways his company is trying to attract different types of people to choose
drunken driver.
a career as truck drivers.

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