ATA Invites Increased Enforcement Scrutiny

Like its Canadian counterpart the Canadian Trucking Alliance, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) is calling on enforcement agencies to step up activities against the trucking industry.

In a recent blog titled "Why an enforcement surge is needed in trucking," the association wrote: “We need to ensure all federal regulations are evenly enforced by every state. That includes entry-level driver training standards so that new entrants to the industry can’t skirt the base requirements of the job. Too many shady training providers across the nation are operating CDL mills, foregoing federally required curriculum to fast-track prospective drivers for a fee. These fraudulent entities put profit over safety and need to be shut down immediately.”

Sound familiar? The CTA and its provincial member associations have been calling on government to heighten enforcement activities to weed out bad actors, including driver licensing mills and carriers that misclassify drivers.

Read more in an article from Today's Trucking.