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January 3, 2001 9:05 AM, EST

When George W. Bush becomes president Jan. 20, he will have someone with the highest levels of transportation policy experience at his right hand.

Andrew H. Card Jr., who served the president-elect’s father as a secretary of transportation, is now Bush’s chief of staff, and as such will help shape administration policies. Card’s appointment is “a wonderful thing for trucking,” American Trucking Associations President Walter B. McCormick Jr. said in an interview last week. Card “appreciates and understands trucking’s critical place in the economy.”

McCormick was chief counsel at the Department of Transportation during Card’s 11-month stewardship.

Card’s record on transportation may provide insights as to the direction the new administration will take toward trucking.

For the full story, see the Jan. 1 print edition of Transport Topics. .