After the 9/11 attacks, the Hoover Dam Road was off-limits to trucks.
An aerial view of AMTA’s 2000 truck show at Pointe South Mountain Resort.
ATA dedicated its new building at 75th & Madison in November 2007.
In 1986, Jerry Moyes, owner and
president of Swift Transportation, was elected president of AMTA. In 1987, the organization celebrated its 50th Anniversary with a convention at the Pointe Resort South Mountain. In 1987, a Maricopa County
transportation consultant predicted that a new South Mountain Bypass toll road would be open for traffic by 2001. In 1988, Governor Evan Meacham
was impeached and Secretary of State Rose Mofford became only the second woman state Governor in history. The legislature took 173 days to complete its work, including a gasohol/MTBE mandate, a one- cent increase in the fuel tax and a provision for cars and trucks to display license plates only on the rear of the vehicle.
The 1990s The truckload industry experienced
historic growth in the 1990s, with carriers like J. B. Hunt, Schneider National, Swift Transportation, Werner Enterprises and others operating thousands of power units. New low-sulfur diesel fuel was required for all on-highway use starting October 1, 1993. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented January 1, 1994. Class 8 truck sales reached a historic high, with 201,303 units sold in 1995. A new “electronic license plate” called PrePass allowed trucks with good safety records to bypass scales and ports of entry.
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Commission was repealed. In 1998, U.S. DOT again mandated anti-lock brake systems for heavy-duty trucks and announced a proposal to modify truck driver hours of service that had been in effect since 1935. New EPA truck emissions standards took effect, with further emissions reductions mandated for 2004 model- year engines. The Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999 included a provision to establish a new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) within the Department of Transportation effective January 1, 2000. Throughout the 1990s, intermodal
freight grew substantially as an efficient way to move goods long distances, and as global markets began to have a greater influence than ever before on the U.S. economy. Traditional over-the-road trucking companies developed intermodal divisions and began moving some long-haul freight via rail. In Arizona, a December 23, 1993 Arizona Business Gazette ran a special
magazine supplement on the effects that NAFTA trade would have on Arizona business. In 1995, AMTA became a pilot for the state Motor Vehicle Division for a new third-party program designed to privatize some licensing and registration transactions. A years-long lobbying effort by AMTA
members led to the repeal of Arizona’s weight-distance tax in 1997. AMTA members also convinced the
Arizona Department of Transportation that building a proposed Hoover Dam Bypass as a toll road would be bad for Arizona business. According to ADOT statistics, deaths
from truck-involved crashes jumped from 73 in 1997 to 125 in 1998, prompting legislators to begin calling for reduced speed limits and right-hand lane restrictions for trucks.
2000 to Present On September 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks against the U.S. grounded air travel and air freight for several days. The trucking industry swung into action to keep critical goods moving. On October 26, 2001,
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