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CHANGING LANES 28 AUGUST 2014 // WWW.CHANGINGLANESDIGITAL.COM Capitol Hill Report ATA Applauds Swift Industry Action on Defamatory Ad American Trucking Associations thanked the hundreds of ATA members and industry partners and thousands of truck drivers for taking swift action that resulted in Maxim Magazine correcting and replacing a defamatory HK]LY[PZLTLU[I`H;L_HZSH^ÄYT "We want to thank all the ATA members, state trucking associations, truck drivers, technicians and all our industry partners for coming together and calling on Maxim to distance themselves and renounce this deplorable advertisement that portrays truck drivers as serial killers," said ATA President and CEO )PSS .YH]LZ ¸0[ ^HZ [OYV\NO [OLPY hard work that Maxim reached out to \Z`LZ[LYKH`HUKVɈLYLK[VYLWSHJL the ad in their digital editions with a positive, pro-trucking industry ad, HUK VɈLYPUN [V WSHJL H ZPTPSHY HK in the print edition of next month's THNHaPUL¹ 0U H Z[H[LTLU[ 4H_PT ZHPK [OL HK ¸KVLZ UV[ YLÅLJ[ [OL ILSPLMZ or opinions of the people at this magazine" and committed to "taking aggressive action to remove the HMVYLZHPKHK]LY[PZLTLU[;VPSS\Z[YH[L the ad has been removed from its digital copy and is being replaced with facts about truckers and the [Y\JRPUN PUK\Z[Y` 4H_PT ^PSS ÄUK many avenues to continue supporting [OLPUK\Z[Y`¹ "The swift response of the industry, and Maxim's equally swift response demonstrate clearly how formidable the industry can be when telling it s very positive, very compelling story," .YH]LZZHPK¸0M[OPZPZHUPUKPJH[PVU of how powerful the new industry- wide image movement, Trucking Moves America Forward, will be, the industry's voice will be loud and JSLHY¹ ATA Hails Senate Action on Hours-of-Service Restart Rule American Trucking Associations leaders recently applauded the Senate Appropriations Committee for adopting a common sense solution WYVWVZLK I` :LU :\ZHU *VSSPUZ 94HPUL[VHKKYLZZ[OL\UQ\Z[PÄLK changes to the restart provisions of [OLOV\YZVMZLY]PJLYLZ[HY[Y\SLZ "Since these rules were proposed in 2010, ATA has maintained that they were unsupported by science and since they were implemented in 2013 the industry and economy have experienced substantial negative LɈLJ[ZHZHYLZ\S[¹ZHPK(;(7YLZPKLU[ HUK*,6)PSS.YH]LZ¸;VKH`[OHURZ