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Raise your hand if your trucking liability insurance premiums have been plummeting to record lows over the last few years? Looks around for any raised hands Freight fraud is not merely a challenge for the logistics industry; it is a growing crisis that threatens national economic security. Each year, fraudulent practices such as double brokering, […]

Shannon Newton President, ATA The Atlantic Hurricane Season runs from June 1 until Nov. 30, and as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted, this year’s season produced an above average number of storms. The devastation in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina resulted in washed away highways, disrupted businesses and halted supply chains of

Raise your hand if your trucking liability insurance premiums have been plummeting to record lows over the last few years? Looks around for any raised hands OK. Raise your hand if it’s easy for you to find liability insurers beating down your door and competing for the opportunity to insure your trucks and drivers? Still

Shannon Newton President, ATA I’m sure you’ve noticed, it’s election season again. Even if you don’t own a calendar, incessant commercials signal it. Candidates smile up at us from postcards in mailboxes or stand with their families in front of flags on television screens to make the case for how they will bring us progress

Collaborating and problem solving with business leaders are among the chief responsibilities of my job as chancellor at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College. It should come as no surprise that the issue that keeps rising to the top of those conversations is addressing the skilled labor shortage across industries and looking at the far-reaching

Shannon Newton President, ATA You’re used to reading about trucks in this space, but as a nod to our cover story, George Henry and his passion for flight, I want to praise a moment in aeronautic history when sharing information allowed humanity to reach new heights. You know the story of the Wright brothers, Orville

Last fall, the American Transportation Research Institute released its new research that found trucking association members are statistically safer, averaging fewer crashes per 100 million miles than companies not connected to such associations. This data is compelling and speaks to the power of community and shared knowledge. When we come together, we share insights, strategies

Shannon Newton President, ATA Dominating another media cycle, Taylor Swift dropped a new album (or two if you count the 2 a.m. surprise bonus tracks). The tortuous lyrics reveal that the records she broke, the millions, even billions, of dollars earned, the tour, the movie, the costumes, the success of her sparkly summer by every

American Trucking Associations’ Women in Motion program is compiling stories from independent contractors in all 50 states to share how they leveraged the owner-operator model to build a successful career in the industry. Each women shares why she chose the contractor route and what she’d like policymakers to know about how threats to the model