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The American Trucking Associations (ATA), founded in 1933, is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry.ATA represents more than 37,000 members covering every type of motor carrier in the United States through a federation of other trucking groups, industry-related conferences, and its 50 affiliated state trucking associations.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry in the United States. The primary mission of the FMCSA is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles Building 1, the headquarters. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) is a state agency of Texas, headquartered in Austin.The agency handles vehicle registration and titling, authorizes operating authorities of motor carriers, and gives grants to law enforcement agencies to increase public awareness about automobile theft and to reduce automobile theft.
The driver must also present his or her log book to authorities upon request, for inspection. In lieu of a log book, a motor carrier may substitute an electronic on-board recorder to record the driver's hours. [64] On December 16, 2019 a new (Electronic Logging Device) Mandate [65] will come into full force.
The National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc. (NMFTA)™ is a nonprofit membership organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. Since 1956, NMFTA has represented the interests of the less-than-truckload (LTL) motor carrier industry, and for-hire interstate and intrastate carriers.
In 1935, congress passed the Motor Carrier Act, which replaced the code of competition and authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate the trucking industry. [7] In September 1938, a truckers strike began in New York City and shut down the city for weeks, demanding lower hours, as one of the biggest strikes that year. [8]
It acquired East Texas Motor Freight Lines, a subsidiary of Bright Industries Inc., in 1982, a move which added 44 new terminal cities increasing ABF's reach to a total of 158, [9] and by 1985 ABF was the sixth largest carrier in the US. [10] ABF created ABF U-Pack Moving as a subsidiary in 1997 to provide household moving services. [8]
Originally a Texas intrastate carrier, CFL expanded its services into the south-central US in the early 1990s [14] and, while owned by Roadway Services in the mid 1990s, the southwest. [16] After reestablishment as an independent company in 1997, CFL extended its services into the southeast through acquisition of several smaller LTL carriers.