ATA President Chris Spear will give his annual State of the Trade & Affiliation handle. Right here he is pictured on the 2021 MC&E.
Photograph: Deborah Lockridge
The American Trucking Associations’ 2022 Administration Convention & Exhibition, Oct. 22-25 in San Diego, California, will revolve across the theme “Investing in Our Future.”
“Yearly, trucking’s brightest minds and most passionate supporters collect at MCE, and at this vital time for our business, this assembly couldn’t be higher timed,” mentioned ATA President and CEO Chris Spear in a information launch. “With a slowing economic system, inflation, document gasoline costs, workforce shortages and political uncertainty, trucking has not often confronted the amount of challenges it faces right this moment — and at MCE, our members and our affiliation will chart a course to overcoming these challenges.”
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will handle the affiliation’s board of administrators on Oct. 25. As well as, Robin Hutcheson, the newly confirmed administrator of the Federal Motor Provider Security Administration, might be a featured speaker on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 22.
“With the ability to hear from key leaders is a crucial a part of the MCE expertise,” Spear mentioned. “We stay up for listening to from Secretary Buttigieg and Administrator Hutcheson about points vital to trucking and the availability chain, together with the implementation of the infrastructure invoice, truck parking and workforce improvement.”
Instructional Periods
Among the many academic session highlights of this 12 months’s occasion, to be held on the San Diego Conference Middle and the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina:
Common Session: The Financial system in a New World Order
Practically each main economic system throughout the globe has transitioned into a brand new interval of decelerating development and rising inflation. How will rates of interest, geopolitical tensions, and commodity costs have an effect on the US economic system and the trucking business? A take a look at the state of the economic system that includes Tom Joyce, managing director and international head of funding banking capital markets technique at MUFG Financial institution, and ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello.
How the Future Regulatory Atmosphere Will Affect your Tools Selections and Expertise Pathways
The regulatory panorama is shifting quickly and inconsistently because the Environmental Safety Company and the California Air Sources Board proceed to suggest and finalize new mandates. This session will discover what roadmaps EPA and CARB are heading down and what it means for what you are promoting planning forward, with insights from:
ATA Vitality & Environmental Counsel Glenn Kedzie.
Cummins International Government Director of Regulatory Affairs Matthew Spears.
C.R. England Senior VP of Tools and Gasoline Ron Corridor.
Volvo Vehicles North America Director of Product Advertising and marketing Johan Agebrand.
California AB 5: What Does It Imply, What’s Subsequent, And What Ought to We Do About It?
Because of the U.S. Supreme Court docket refusing to listen to the problem to California’s AB 5, which seeks to reclassify many impartial contractors as staff, the injunction stopping enforcement in opposition to the trucking business was not too long ago lifted. The danger of legal responsibility for noncompliance is now a actuality for a lot of trucking firms working in California.
A panel of Scopelitis lawyer consultants — Greg Feary, Shannon Cohen, and Prasad Sharma — in addition to Glenn Fehribach CFO, World Group, will focus on the legislation’s historical past, the “business-to-business” exemption, the trucking business’s choices for compliance, utility of the legislation past motor carriage, and modifications owner-operators are making to conform.
What Does the Full Electrical and Hydrogen Roadmap Look Like?
This session will focus on future zero-emissions gear, together with private and non-private infrastructure necessities. The panel will take a look at matching car specs, together with vary and payload, to utility, and can focus on matching funding to autos and infrastructure. Audio system embrace:
Jack Legler, technical director, Expertise & Upkeep Council (TMC) of the American Trucking Associations.
Rakesh Aneja, Daimler Truck North America eMobility.
Michael Roeth, executive director of the North American Council for Freight Effectivity.
Luncheon Session: Hear from Girls Leaders in Trucking
Range is important for a productive work atmosphere, and this panel will supply ideas on recruiting, retaining and empowering ladies. A panel of girls will describe their journeys, struggles, and successes navigating the trucking business.
Shannon Newton, president, Arkansas Trucking Affiliation and vice chairman of the Trucking Affiliation Executives Council
Cari Baylor, President, Baylor Trucking
Tamara Jalving, vice chairman of security, Yellow
Tina Peterson, skilled truck driver and proprietor of Pink Pine Transport
Angela Tillery, managing director of studying and improvement, FedEx Freight
Casting a Extensive Internet to Put together for Trucking Decarbonization, Emissions Reductions, and Sustainability Planning
Greater than ever, trucking is within the bullseye of federal and state legislators and regulators on the environmental and power fronts. Whether or not it’s EPA or CARB advancing rules to scale back fleet greenhouse fuel and NOx emissions, state zero-emission car gross sales and buy mandates, inside combustion engine bans, or greenhouse fuel reporting mandates, tomorrow’s fleet operations will look far totally different than they do right this moment. A panel of business executives will share their views and plans on the multitude of modifications which can be simply across the nook:
Invoice Sullivan, govt vice chairman for advocacy, American Trucking Associations.
Paul Enos, president and CEO, Nevada Trucking Affiliation.
Srikanth Padmanabhan, president, Engine Enterprise, Cummins Inc.
Dave Williams, senior VP of apparatus and authorities relations, Knight-Swift Transportation
ATRI’s Huge Reveal, the annual take a look at the high points going through trucking as decided by the American Transportation Analysis Institute survey.
Do AI DashCams Enhance My Authorized Publicity?
How Your Drivers’ Well being is Affecting Your Backside Line
Managing Money Stream in an Unsure Financial system
The Way forward for Security: Making ready Your Fleets for Rising Dangers
ATA MC&E returns to San Diego, the place it met in 2014. Attendees loved the Gaslight Quarter leisure district close to the conference heart.
Photograph: Deborah Lockridge
Extra ATA MC&E Highlights
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