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Teamsters Plan * USA - Broad Trucking Policy Effort
"...many in Congress have never driven a truck or worked on a loading dock"...
Washington,D.C,USA - Fleet Owner -9 Jan 2007: -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters plans to push Congress to address an array of trucking-related issues this year and will encourage its own members to run for political office in the next election cycle... "We're actively looking for Teamster members to run for office because we feel too many in Congress have never driven a truck or worked on a loading dock," said Mike Mathis, director of government affairs for the union during a special policy conference held at the union?s headquarters in Washington D.C... "We're also going to focusing more of our resources on key state governors, state legislatures and local elections due to all the rancor and gridlock here in the nation's capitol," he added... One of the Teamster's major priorities this year is to block a DOT effort to institute a pilot program that would allow 100 Mexican carriers to operate on U.S. roads, said Fred McLuckie, deputy director of legislative affairs for the union...
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