American Trucking Associations
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| Founded | 1933 |
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| Type | Trade Association |
| Focus | Trucking Industry |
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Area served
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 United States |
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Key people
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Chris Spear, President and CEO Kevin Burch, Chairman and President of Jet Express, Dayton, Ohio. |
| Website | trucking.org |
Chris Spear, President and CEO
The American Trucking Associations (ATA), founded in 1933, is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. ATA represents more than 37,000 members covering every type of motor carrier in the United States through a federation of other trucking groups, industry-related conferences, and its 50 affiliated state trucking associations. Former Governor of Kansas Bill Graves was replaced by Chris Spear as the ATA's President and CEO in July of 2016.
According to the ATA's mission statement, their goals are ATA's mission is to "effectively advocate and communicate efforts designed to improve safety and profitability for our members," in accordance with the organization's strategic plan and vision."
On September 23, 1933, the American Trucking Associations was established as a national affiliation of state trucking organizations. The ATA was established by a merger of the American Highway Freight Association and the Federated Trucking Associations of America.
The ATA began with a staff of eight working from a three-room suite in the Transportation Building in Washington, D.C. During World War II the Army requested the ATA recruit personnel for two quartermaster regiments that would become the U.S.Army Transportation Corps. With calls to the 350 members of the ATA's Trucking Service War Council, 5,700 trucking industry employees volunteered for enlisted positions and 258 volunteered for officer commissions. After the war the ATA was in the forefront of the groups and industries supporting Dwight D. Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System.
The American Trucking Association has worked on regulatory issues from the Code of Fair Competition in 1934 to the eventual deregulation of the industry.
The ATA's headquarters are in Arlington, Virginia. The ATA has a legislative affairs office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
In 2016, ATA named Chris Spear as the federation's ninth president, replacing former Kansas Governor Bill Graves.
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