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CalENdar News iN Brief, pediatric cancer, the company will be
In addition to raising awareness for
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of EvENTS using the trailer as a fundraising tool

America and pursues uniformity, com- and pledges to donate $0.03 mile to
patibility and reciprocity of commercial “The Brooklyn Project” for every mile
FEBRUARY vehicle inspections and enforcement the trailer rolls.
FEBRUARy 29–MARCh 3 activities. CEA Logistics Solutions joins a long
ATA Technology & MAinTenAnce Mooney had been the alliance’s list of trucking companies using their
council (TMc) AnnuAl MeeTing deputy executive director since 2010. resources to help the community, like
Nashville, Tenn.
He joined CVSA in 2003 as director of Ohio-based carrier, Jet Express which
FEBRUARy 29–MARCh 4 training programs and later served as recently launched a campaign to col-
nATMi SAfeTy cerTificATion
courSe the organization’s director of enforce- lect water bottles for residents of Flint,
little Rock, Ark. ment programs. Mich., who have discovered their local
MARCH “Through his unwavering com- water supply is unsafe and contami-
mitment to this alliance and its mis- nated with lead.
MARCh 6–9
TruckloAd cArrierS sion, his deep industry knowledge, and Jet Express’ President Kevin Burch
ASSociATion AnnuAl MeeTing his devotion to transportation safety, told Dayton Daily News he would
las Vegas, Nev. Collin has demonstrated he has what donate a driver’s services and a truck
MARCh 10 it takes to lead this organization, and and trailer to ship donated bottled
BoArd of direcTorS MeeTing we are confident he will move us for- water to Flint.
hot Springs, Ark.
ward in achieving our strategic goals
MARCh 15–18 new highway Font a bust
cAll on WAShingTon and mission,” CVSA President Maj. Jay
Washington, D.C. Thompson, of the Arkansas Highway The Federal Highway
MARCh 29 Police, said. Administration officials are banning
SAfeTy MAnAgeMenT council Mooney has 27 years of experience construction of new highway signs with
MeeTing in the transportation safety industry the typeface “Clearview” as of Feb. 23.
little Rock, Ark.
supporting large truck and bus safety. In 2004, the FHWA allowed states
APRIL Prior to joining CVSA, Mooney worked to change the font on highways signs
APRIl 5–7 in Canada with the Saskatchewan from “Highway Gothic” to “Clearview,”
ATA SAfeTy MAnAgeMenT Highway Transport Patrol. suggesting that the new font was easier
council & TSc’S AnnuAl Policy to read, particularly in unlit portions of
conference
Arlington, Va. carriers turn trucking the highway.
APRIl 8 to charity However, the agency said the exis-
deAdline for corPorATe CEA Logistics Solutions, out of tence of two typefaces actually confuses
SAfeTy AWArd noMinATionS Camden, Ark. unveils a new trailer fea- motorists and does not make reading
APRIl 21–22 turing a giant photo of 8-year-old Asher the new signs easier and ultimately
nATMi cerTified cArgo SecuriTy Ray, a little girl from Little Rock, Ark. safer, as they had hoped.
ProfeSSionAl (ccSP) courSe
little Rock, Ark. who is battling pediatric cancer, Ewing’s “Although seldom specifically iden-
sarcoma. tifiable by the motorist, non-uniformity
APRIl 25–28
cVSA WorkShoP
Chicago, Ill.
MAY
MAy 1–4
ATA SPring leAderShiP
Washington, D.C.
MAy 18–20
AnnuAl BuSineSS conference &
Vendor ShoWcASe
little Rock, Ark.
MAy 26
nATMi oShA AudiT reAdineSS
little Rock, Ark.

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