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    OOIDA: Bipartisan Senate highway bill not too shabby compared to House version

    The U.S. Senate’s Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee’s bipartisan highway bill is not nearly as disappointing as the bill passed last week by the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee. Read More

    Posted on | June 16, 2021

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    Truckers oppose efforts to lower age for CDL holders

    The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the largest national association representing professional and small-business truckers, opposes a proposal to launch a pilot program allowing drivers under 21 to participate in interstate... Read More

    Posted on | May 14, 2019

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    Shortage myth used to pull younger drivers into trucking workforce

    The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association sent a letter to members of Congress opposing the DRIVE-Safe Act (H.R. 1374 and S. 569). The bills propose lowering age requirements to get an interstate... Read More

    Posted on | February 28, 2019

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    Truckers say plenty of drivers out there, no need to lower CDL age restriction

    The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, a national association that represents small-business truckers, says that concerns about a driver shortage are largely myth and actually more about high turnover in one... Read More

    Posted on | May 07, 2018

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    Truckers and safety advocates oppose efforts to lower age for CDL holders

    The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has signed a letter along with other industry stakeholders in opposition to proposals to lower the age requirement for obtaining an interstate commercial drivers license.The letter... Read More

    Posted on | April 17, 2018

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