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At a time when the industry faces multiple challenges, American Trucking Associations is keeping its promise to provide “best in class” advocacy to its members, the group’s leadership said.

The hours-of-service road show came to the Midwest on June 14 and 15 as the Department of Transportation held the fourth of eight public hearings on its proposal to revamp the regulations governing the amount of time truck and bus drivers could spend behind the wheel.

Safety advocates — as well as survivors of truck-related accidents and relatives of victims — urged Congress to reduce the amount of time truck drivers could spend behind the wheel.

In trying to agree on a transportation spending bill for fiscal 2001, selected Senate and House members must also decide whether to put a clamp on the Department of Transportation’s hours-of-service rulemaking.

Changes in Canadian environmental clean air policy that would affect the trucking industry have met with cautious support from the Canadian Trucking Alliance.

The Senate threw a major roadblock in the Department of Transportation’s drive to institute new hours-of-service rules for truckers.

American Trucking Associations last week presented The Maintenance Council with a dues proposal designed to keep the council’s membership intact.

The leadership of the Truckload Carriers Association is expected to overwhelmingly sign off on a plan June 20 that calls for the group and its members to pay American Trucking Associations a monthly fee instead of requiring its members to join the federation.

Two years ago, J. Vincent Ciroli Jr. was developing Internet sites for banks and helping his wife promote her real estate business online.