The distinguished team of Ahern and Associates, Ltd. and Benesch Law have successfully completed their second annual transportation conference to a packed house of attendees at the JW Marriott in Chicago. Those in attendance were not given a sales pitch as is expected at most no cost conferences, but were instead treated to an abundance of information on topics which effect the success and operation of transportation companiesmost notably impending CSA regulations.
For example, Tommy Hodges, Chairman of Titan Transportation and Ex Chairman of the American Trucking Association and Lane Kidd, President of the Arkansas Trucking Association both eloquently delivered impactful presentations on CSA 2010 and hours of service. The focus of their message zeroed in on the effect CSA is having on the transportation industry and the frustrations arising as a result of the fact that there is no training of the agents to enforce regulation.
Additionally, they are finding that most trucking companies cannot interpret the new CSA regulations and posed the question: How can you effectively regulate an industry when the agents who are paid to enforce regulations dont understand the law?
Kidd also indicated that 51% of 91,918 carriers already have a CSA infraction and of those carriers, approximately 2,700,000 are truck drivers employed by these firms. The most frequent CSA infractions included:
