CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JULY
JULY 9 SAFETY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL AND MAINTENANCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL MEETINGS Little Rock, Ark.
AUGUST
AUGUST 4 ATA BOARD OF DIRECTORSMEETING Northwest Arkansas
AUGUST 11–15 NATIONAL TRUCK DRIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS America’s Center St. Louis, Mo.
AUGUST 31–SEPTEMBER 4 NATMI FLEET SAFETY CERTIFICATIONCOURSE Victory Building Little Rock, Ark.
SEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER 10 SAFETYMANAGEMENT COUNCILMEETING
SEPTEMBER 13–17 CVSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE &EXHIBITION Boise, Idaho
SEPTEMBER 13–19 NATIONAL TRUCK DRIVER APPRECIATION WEEK
SEPTEMBER 17 TRUCK DRIVER APPRECIATION DAY TA/Petro North Little Rock, Ark.
SEPTEMBER 21–24 SUPERTECH Walt Disney Swan & Dolphin Resort Orlando, Fla.
SEPTEMBER 24 ATA-PACGOLF TOURNAMENT, 40 UNDER 40 COUNCIL MEETING, BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING RidgePoint Country Club Jonesboro, Ark.
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NEWS IN BRIEF, Continued from page 17
to the White House,” Huckabee said during his announcement speech to an energetic crowd. “I always believed that a kid could go from Hope to a higher ground,” the presidential hopeful’s cam- paign motto. The former Arkansas governor
and minister will attempt his second presidential campaign after running in 2008. Other 2016 Republican can- didates include Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) among other can- didates and a long list of potential and exploratory candidates. “Washington is more dysfunc-
tional than ever and has become so beholden to the donor class who fills the campaign coffers that it ignores the fact that 1 in 4 American families are paying more than half their income for housing,” Huckabee said. Huckabee will work to recapture
the support he garnered in 2008 when he won the Iowa caucuses and went on to win seven more states, mostly in the south, before Sen. John McCain won the nomination. For the past seven years, Huckabee
has worked outside of politics but remained in the public eye with a televi- sion show on Fox News.
OREGON TO TEST PAY-PER-MILE IDEA AS REPLACEMENT FOR GAS TAX Oregon is ready to test the first
U.S. revenue program that will charge
car owners for miles driven rather than a fuel tax. The program is meant to help the
state fund road and bridge projects at a time when money generated from gas taxes are declining across the country because of greater fuel efficiency and increasing popularity of fuel-efficient, hybrid and electric cars. Starting July 1, up to 5,000 volun-
teers in Oregon can sign up to drive with devices that collect data on how much they have driven and where. The volunteers will agree to pay 1.5 cents for each mile traveled on public roads within Oregon, instead of the tax now added when filling up at the pump. Some electric and hybrid car own-
ers, however, say the new tax would be unfair to them and would discourage purchasing of green vehicles. State officials say it is only fair for
owners of green vehicles to be charged for maintaining roads, just as owners of gasoline-powered vehicles do. While growing in popularity, elec-
tric vehicles and hybrids are still in the minority on American roads, even in a state as green-minded as Oregon. Of 3.3 million passenger cars registered in Oregon at the end of 2014, about 68,000 were hybrid, 3,500 electric and 620 plug-in hybrid. A decade ago, only 8,000 hybrids were registered. However, fuel-economy for gas-
powered vehicles has been increas- ing as technology is developed that addresses public concerns about green- house gas emissions and dependence on foreign oil. Oregon is the only state to actually test-drive the pay-per-mile idea. ATR
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