CHAIRMAN’S LETTER
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In the early 1930s, the country was in the midst of the Great Depression. Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, which created the National Recovery Administration. Te administration required every major industry to draft a Code of Fair Competition. In a history of the American Trucking Associations, author J.R. Halliday wrote that the code was to include an agreement on minimum wages, maximum hours of work, and any other rules unique to each industry. Only problem was, trucking was almost completely unorganized, and few trucking executives wanted to cooperate with their competitors. As a result, the administration got about 100 different versions of a code for trucking.
Te government threatened to write the code for the trucking industry if truckers couldn’t work it out. Trucking executives finally came to the table. Out of those meetings came a draft of the code and an agreement to form the American Trucking Associations. ATA soon set up a legislative division, a safety and insurance division, a rates and tariffs division, and a publicity department. While this was happening at the national level, truckers were also forming organizations to advocate for fair treatment in taxation, infrastructure and commerce at the state level.
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Trucking Associations (ATA). ATA serves and represents the trucking industry on a national level, influencing federal and state government actions, advancing a positive trucking industry image, providing education programs and industry research, and promoting highway safety and security.
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Nebraska Trucking Association is a statewide trade association for commercial truck and bus operators and affiliated businesses. It is a not-for- profit association governed by a board of directors elected annually. Nebraska Trucking is an affiliate of the American
A somewhat more challenging assignment is to increase your involvement beyond recruiting a member. I realize not everyone has the time to be an active volunteer or board member. But if you don’t usually respond to an association survey, take the survey next time we send one out. If you don’t normally contribute to the Nebraska Trucking Foundation, consider a tax-free donation this year to support careers in trucking. If you can’t afford to have drivers participating in the Nebraska Truck Driving Championships, consider nominating them as Drivers of the Month. If your company is small and it’s hard to get away, use the online content available through Truck Services to improve your safety management.
My goal is to grow our membership base and increase member involvement. I’m counting on your help. Together we can continue to reach out to policy-makers and the public in support of trucking.
Daniel Tompkins Aulick Leasing Corp.
Nebraska Trucking Chairman of the Board
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Te association works for the benefit of its members. One unintended consequence is that we wind up also working for trucking companies who haven’t made the commitment to support the association…yet. However, if you believe, as I do, that there’s great value in this association, I have an easy assignment for you. Go recruit a new Nebraska Trucking Association member from your community.
Larry Johnson
Te Nebraska Trucking Association came from the “merger” of two statewide truck groups in 1940. Tat was 72 years ago, folks, and we’re still here. We still bring Nebraska’s truckers together to guide industry policy and legislation. We offer access to information on best-in-class safety management. We publicize the fact that trucks and their professional drivers are essential to Nebraska’s economy.
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