Truckers Cheer Regulatory Relief, More Truck Parking from USDOT
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) today applauded the U.S. Department of Transportation’s announcement of new initiatives, pilot programs, and regulatory updates designed to improve the lives of America’s truck drivers. The actions deliver on President Trump’s Executive Order on Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America’s Truck Drivers. The package includes $275 million … Continued
OOIDA response to Alliance group’s drug study
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association responded to an announcement by the Trucking Alliance group that truckers use cocaine more than reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Truckers tell Buttigieg: Prioritize truck parking
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association sent this letter to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg imploring the Biden Administration to include dedicated funding for truck parking in the American Jobs Plan infrastructure package. OOIDA has long advocated addressing a severe, national shortage of safe parking for long-haul truck drivers and says it’s time to do more than studies and reports. It’s time to add capacity!
Truckers welcome beginning of USMCA agreement
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement which enters into force today.
This newly ratified trilateral trade agreement replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Truckers welcome plans to finalize USMCA agreement
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is leading a coalition of dozens of influential trade associations to oppose four burdensome, costly, and unsafe trucking mandates. Today the coalition sent a letter to Congress urging them to reject those proposals as they work on the next surface transportation reauthorization.