5 Trucking Associations Launch Clear Freight Coalition – Gas Smarts

5 trucking associations joined collectively to launch the Clear Freight Coalition to function a collective voice for key trucking trade stakeholders on vitality and emissions points.

Made up of motor carriers of each dimension and sector, truck producers, and truck sellers, the CFC’s mission is to:

• Educate coverage makers on the progress the trucking trade has made in decreasing emissions and defending the setting;
• Promote the work underway to cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions from freight transportation; and
• Advocate for sound public insurance policies that transition towards a zero-emission future in a fashion that assures inexpensive and dependable freight transportation and protects the nation’s provide chain.

“The important thing to our shared success will likely be in establishing a practical timeline and multiple-solution method that ensures productiveness for drivers and reliability inside the provide chain for shoppers,” mentioned Jim Ward, president of the Truckload Carriers Affiliation, a founding member of the coalition. “For this to occur, we want provider involvement in all phases of the testing course of to assist establish operational challenges on the bottom. All modes of our trade stand able to work collectively to arrange for this important transition.”

Who Are the Founding Members of the Clear Freight Coalition? 

•  American Trucking Associations
• American Truck Sellers, a division of the Nationwide Vehicle Sellers Affiliation;
• Nationwide Tank Truck Carriers
•  Truck & Engine Producers Affiliation
• Truckload Carriers Affiliation

Jim Mullen will function CFC’s government director. Mullen has intensive regulatory, legislative, and authorized expertise inside the trade, having beforehand served as performing administrator and chief counsel of the Federal Motor Service Security Administration, chief administrative and authorized officer of a publicly traded autonomous truck developer, and basic counsel for a big publicly traded truck firm.

“America’s truck sellers promote and repair the most recent, cleanest, and most secure vans obtainable,” mentioned Laura Perrotta, President of ATD. “Truck sellers are important to turning over America’s growing older truck fleet, and with practically half of America’s trucking fleet over 10 years previous, there may be plenty of work this new coalition can do collectively to arrange {the marketplace} for the subsequent era of unpolluted vans.”

NTTC President and CEO Ryan Streblow mentioned the affiliation will “stand prepared with our companions to embrace and assist implement new scalable applied sciences and infrastructure on a timeline which is obtainable.”