CHAIRMAN’S LETTER
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April showers to May showers to June showers, we cannot complain about a dry spring. Tere has been a lot of things going on since my last letter to the magazine.
On April 28, Duane Acklie was recognized as the Downtown Lincoln Rotary #14 Nebraskan of the Year. Every year they select an individual who has distinguished himself or herself through service to others in keeping with ideals of Rotary International. Mr. Acklie has, as we all know, fulfilled the criteria many times. We would like to offer our congratulations to Duane as he is truly deserving of this award.
Our spring legislative session has ended with the passing of the Fuel tax. A thank you to the staff, Larry and Patty, but also to our representative Dick Reiser for their hard work and diligence getting the additional funds to help repair and improve our infrastructure.
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ljohnson@nebtrucking.com
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knesja@nebtrucking.com dgarcia@nebtrucking.com
office manager Diana Garcia
Keith Nesja
vice president Patty Wood
June 5 and 6 was the Nebraska Truck Driving Championship in Grand Island. Tis year there were 91 contestants participating with a new class of mixer trucks added this year. Again a great thank you to all contestants, volunteers, and sponsors for this event. Te Nebraska State Patrol also had their Carrier Enforcement Competition, Inspector Championships, at this time with enforcement officers testing for the top honor of Inspector Champion, again a thank you to all.
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.
For more information, contact Nebraska Trucking: 1701 K Street P.O. Box 81010 Lincoln, NE 68501 Phone 402.476.8504 Fax: 402.476.8570
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
It was decided at the board meeting to donate money to the ATRI (American Transportation Research Institute) to help them with the research they do to help our industry. ATRI is part of the American Trucking Association and its primary mission is to conduct transportation research with an emphasis on the trucking industry’s essential role in a safe, efficient, and viable transportation system. Te surveys they send out and are passed along with our Association are the life blood of their research. Please when you receive these surveys from either ATRI or the Nebraska Trucking Association take the few minutes to fill them out. Your answers are appreciated as the more information they can gather the better the research is.
Tere have been some improvements made at the offices in Lincoln, a new AC system has been installed and changing out the lights to LED lighting is in process.
Again thank you for the honor to serve as your Executive Chairman. Sincerely,
Chris Klotz SBT, Inc.
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Larry Johnson
May 21 was the annual Spring Board of Director’s meeting and PAC Golf Fundraiser at Iron Horse Golf Club in Ashland. I would like to again thank all of the people and companies who sponsored the lunch, drink tickets and golf. It was a great day, dry for one, and we were enlightened by Chief Dave Lorenzen about an organization TAT (Truckers Against Trafficking ). Chief Lorenzen has 37 years of law enforcement, 32 of those with the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement Office. His presentation was the growing problem of human trafficking and how the truckers and trucking industry as a whole can be more eyes looking to help law enforcement stem this growing epidemic. TAT is an organization that is asking, if there is some suspicious activity, the only involvement needed is a simple phone call and let law enforcement take it from there. Te Nebraska trucking Association has additional information available with DVD’s and printed info.
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