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| ATA Hires Chapman Capitol Consulting
for Lobbying |
| American Trucking Associations
lobbying
expenditures for 2007: $982,321.00* |
| The American Trucking
Associations, Inc. recently hired Chapman Capitol Consulting
Inc. to lobby the federal government on
transportation-related issues, according to the
disclosure forms to the left. |
| Lobbyists are required to disclose
activities that could influence members of the executive and legislative
branches, under a federal law enacted in 1995. Lobbyists must register with
Congress within 45 days of being hired or engaging in lobbying. |
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| The firm has specified it will lobby on Transportation and
Homeland Security appropriations, highway bill
reauthorization and surface transportation funding
issues according
to the form posted online by the US
Senate's public records office. |
| Chapman Capitol Consulting will use
their expertise and influence at Capitol Hill to obtain an end result
for their new client undoubtedly. |
| National Issues still hanging out that
immediately effect the Trucking Industry and may be on the agenda of the
lobby group are: |
| A
Final Hours of Service Rule |
| Cross
Border Trucking |
| Surface
Transportation Funding |
| North
Americas Super Corridor (NASCO) |
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| Members of the ATA include Corporate
Officers of United Parcel Service, Yellow Roadway Corporation, Watkins
& Shepard Trucking, Knight
Transportation and others. The ATA recently came out on the following
issues; |
| ATA
Testifies in Support of Hours of Service Rule
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| ATA
Welcomes Retention of Hours of Service Rule |
| ATA Asks Congress to
Support Efforts to Enhance Drug and Alcohol Testing for
Commercial Drivers |
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| OpenSecrets.Org reports total lobbying
expenditures of $982,321.00 by the American Trucking Associations
during 2007. |
| The ATA touts at their website the
benefits of becoming a member of the ATA;
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| "ATA represents your
company's interests in Washington, fighting unfair taxes,
eliminating burdensome regulations, and creating a healthy
business environment. We are working to ensure that politicians
and regulators understand your business and enact laws that are
good for trucking." |
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Officers listed for
the ATA are: ATA Secretary: William D. Zollars Chairman, President &
CEO of Yellow Roadway Corporation, ATA Treasurer: Arnold F. Wellman, Jr.
Vice President, Domestic/International, United Parcel Service, Inc., ATA
Vice Chairman: John M. Smith, President & CEO of CRST International,
Inc., ATA Vice Chairman: Barbara Windsor, President & CEO of Hahn
Transportation, Inc., ATA Second Vice Chairman: G. Tommy Hodges,
Chairman of Titan Transfer, Inc, ATA First Vice Chairman: Charles L.
"Shorty" Whittington, President of Grammer Industries, Inc.
and ATA Chairman: Ray Kuntz, Chairman & CEO of Watkins & Shepard
Trucking.
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| Report Source(s): |
| http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=0 |
| http://www.truckline.com/index |
| http://www.truckline.com/aboutata/officers.aspx |
| http://www.stb.dot.gov/stb/index.html |
| http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/clientsum.asp?txtname=American+Trucking+Assns&year=2007
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