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Since its founding in 2007, the organization has worked to raise awareness and encourage women to become truck drivers. In 2008, WIT held its first reception at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky. Ellen Voie, as founder, later became the President and CEO of the organization and Leigh Foxall was named chairwoman. [18]
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 California Trucking Association (CTA) has asked a federal judge to stop a state rule that would require truckers to switch to zero-emissions vehicles by 2042, calling it "a vast overreach ...
Forget speeding tickets — California truck drivers will soon have to watch out for pollution tickets. State regulators on Thursday voted to crack down on heavy duty trucks weighing more than ...
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Jerry Moyes is an American businessman who is the founder, former chairman, and CEO of Phoenix-based Swift Transportation, one of the largest trucking companies in the United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Moyes also owns charter airline Swift Air and FBO Swift Aviation at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport .
Donohue with Congressman Amo Houghton in 2004. Donohue worked as an administrator at Fairfield University and as a trustee at Marymount University. [12] From 1969 to 1976, he was the US Official Deputy Assistant Postmaster General, where he helped "convert" the Post Office from a government department into the quasi-private U.S. Postal Service.
As a result truck drivers were frequently portrayed as antagonists in movies. In 1982, a southern California truck driver named Larry Walters gained short-lived fame as "Lawn Chair Larry", for pulling a stunt in which he ascended to a height of 16,000 feet (4,900 m) by attaching helium balloons to a lawn chair. Walters claims he intended to ...