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gives sweeping new powers to the Food
and Drug Administration, allowing it
“to start sending people to jail for viola-
tions.”
While the law places the primary
responsibility on food producers and
processors not carriers, it does put in
place a rule on the sanitary transport of
food and for producers and processors
to maintain a food safety plan for food
sINgINg oUr praIses Point, Ore. told the hundreds of show products which will include informa-
Top officials from the American attendees. tion on transportation, storage and
Trucking Associations (ATA), the Todd Spencer, executive vice presi- distribution. The plan must also contain
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers dent of OOIDA, said trucking has a information on sanitation practices,
Association (OOIDA) and ACT 1 indus- great story to tell but has not done including employee hygiene and other
try suppliers kicked off “Trucking Moves enough to do so. “We pay a dear price factors.
America Forward,” a nationwide truck- for not singing our own praises,” Carriers will have responsibilities
ing image campaign, at a press confer- Spencer said. under the Sanitary Transportation of
ence before the start of the Mid-America For more information or to sup-
Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky. port the campaign, visit www.trucking- 
“We have to think about how to get movesamerica.com.
more people into this industry. This is
way overdue,” Kevin Burch, vice chair- fooD-HaUlers sUbjecT
man of the Trucking Moves America To HeIgHTeNeD
Forward campaign and president of saNITary sTaNDarDs
truckload carrier Jet Express, said at the Signed into law in
March 26 press event. 2011, the Food Safety
The mission of “Trucking Moves Modernization Act (FSMA) is
America Forward” is to establish a pushing fleets that haul food
long-term, industry-wide movement to products to take a hands-on
create a positive image for the industry, approach with their food
to ensure policymakers and the pub- service clients to ensure a
lic understand the importance of the smooth implementation.
trucking industry to the nation’s econo- “You need to be proac-
my, and to build the political and grass- tive and get out front” on
roots support necessary to strengthen this, said Bud Rodowick,
and grow the industry in the future. manager fleet performance,
“This image movement is going Thermo-King. “Find out
to change the way trucking is looked where your shippers are in
at across the country,” Mike Card, developing their plans and
past ATA chairman and president of work with them.”
Combined Transport Inc. in Central Rodowick said the law

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