Trucking organizations react to Trump’s second time period as President

Three main trucking organizations right now congratulated Donald Trump on his return to the White Home, and stated they sit up for working with him and the subsequent Congress on points vital to the business.

Members of America Highway Crew Captains met President Trump in March 2017 occasionAmerican Trucking AssociationsTrump turns into solely the second president to be reelected after dropping his first bid for a second time period. He obtained 51% of the favored vote, however extra importantly he has 277 electoral votes in comparison with Vice President Kamal Harris’s 224.

The American Trucking Associations, Proprietor-Operator Impartial Drivers Affiliation, and the Truckload Carriers Affiliation all stated they count on to work with the brand new Trump administration on addressing problems with concern.

David Heller, senior vp of security and public affairs for the TCA, this morning shared an electronic mail assertion, which stated: „Our nation has spoken, and TCA congratulates our 47^th President Donald J. Trump on his decisive victory within the normal election. As an affiliation, we sit up for working along with his administration and the subsequent Congress to advance the priorities that our truckload membership has recognized vital to maintaining America transferring.“

The OOIDA had an identical response. 

„OOIDA and the 150,000 small enterprise truckers we characterize congratulate Donald Trump and J.D. Vance on their resounding victory,“ stated OOIDA President Todd Spencer. „We sit up for working with the Trump Administration and congressional allies to advance a pro-trucker agenda, which incorporates increasing truck parking, stopping unworkable environmental mandates, and stopping a harmful velocity limiter mandate.“ 

OOIDA additionally identified that Vice President-elect J.D. Vance is formally on the file as a cosponsor of OOIDA’s high two legislative priorities. As a senator, Vance has cosponsored the Truck Parking Security Enchancment Act and the DRIVE Act, which prohibited mandating velocity limiters on industrial autos.

Whereas the ATA additionally congratulated Trump on his reelection, the group’s chief additionally detailed points he hoped the brand new president would deal with.

 „We congratulate President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance on their victory and sit up for working with their transition group and new administration within the days and months forward,“ stated the ATA’s  President and CEO Chris Spear.

„President Trump made trucking a precedence all through his first time period and partnered with us to enact insurance policies that strengthened the availability chain, grew the economic system, and delivered for all Individuals. His second time period affords an historic alternative to construct upon that file and present why the most effective method to governing is one paved by frequent sense. That begins by changing EPA’s electric-truck rule with nationwide emission requirements which can be technologically achievable and account for the operational realities of our important business.

„With the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to run out subsequent yr, ATA stands able to work throughout the aisle on Capitol Hill to attain pro-growth tax reform, together with repealing the century-old, punitive federal excise tax on heavy-duty vehicles and trailers that penalizes our business for investing in newer, cleaner, and safer gear. We additionally sit up for working with the Trump Administration and Congress on a number of insurance policies to assist our workforce, defend the proper of impartial truckers to decide on their very own profession path, and finish lawsuit abuse by restoring steadiness and equity to the civil justice system. 

“The following 4 years will current large selections for our nation. As we deal with these challenges and alternatives collectively, the Trump Administration and 119th Congress will discover a constructive accomplice in ATA.“

Throughout Trump’s first administration, trucking loved a high-profile, photograph opportunity-rich occasion on the White Home, which was orchestrated by the ATA. In March of 2017, with two tractor-trailers parked on the South Garden of the White Home, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence met members of ATA’s America Highway Crew Captains and different members of the business.

In the course of the occasion, Trump climbed up into one of many vehicles, blew the air horn and mimiced being a driver. He additionally met with business members to debate well being care.