- Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association
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- 1 NW OOIDA Drive, Grain Valley, MO 64029
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- Web site: www.ooida.com
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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- Contact: Norita Taylor,
- norita_taylor@ooida.com
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- (800) 444-5791
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- Small Business Truckers
- Thankful To Senate
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- ''Pilot Program' To Be Stopped By Latest Legislation
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- GRAIN VALLEY, MO -- The
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) thanked the Senate
today for passing an amendment, 74-24, to cut off the funding for the U.S.
Department of Transportation's Cross-Border Trucking Pilot Program.
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- "Congress has said enough is enough," stated
Executive Vice President of OOIDA Todd Spencer. "They're tired of
the Administration's efforts to force the pilot program on the American
people. Our nation's safety and security should never be put at risk."
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- Sen. Byron Dorgan, (ND-D) and Sen. Arlen Specter, (PA-R)
offered an amendment today to the Senate's FY 2008 Transportation, Housing
and Urban Development Appropriations bill. It would cut off funds for implementing
the cross-border pilot program.
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- In July, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously
approved a similar amendment as part of deliberations on its version of
the FY2008 transportation appropriations legislation that also would remove
funding for the cross-border pilot program.
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- The Dorgan-Specter amendment stipulates that "None
of the funds made available under this act may be used to establish a cross-border
motor carrier demonstration program to allow Mexico domiciled motor carriers
to operate beyond the commercial zones along the international border between
the United States and Mexico."
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- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is
the national trade association representing the interests of small-business
trucking professionals and professional truck drivers. OOIDA was established
in 1973 and is headquartered in the greater Kansas City, MO, area. The
Association currently has more than 156,000 members from all 50 states
and Canada.
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