NEWSLINE SPONSORSHIP – We still have a few newsletters available to sponsor:

July Edition 14, August Edition 15, October Edition 20, November Edition 21, November Edition 22, & December Edition 24.

 If your company would like to be a sponsor, please contact Carol Foster at the TTA office by phone (615) 777-2882 or email ( [email protected]) to reserve your edition. The cost will be $300.00 per issue. We will have 24 issues this year. If you would like a banner ad it would be $500.00 per edition.

Chairman's Corner

Connie Vaughn

McKee Foods Transportation, LLC.

How will you celebrate our nations independence this year? Will it be different than in years past? Most likely for many of us. But the underlying intent is the same - celebrate the good things about America and renew our collective efforts to make life better for the next generation.

TTA has an important part in making life and livelihoods better for the next generation of trucking professionals. TTA member companies must renew our collective efforts to ensure that TTA can carry on the work for generations to come with a focus on safety, training, and making this industry known and attractive to the next group of young professionals.

Sure, some things are different. Some things need to change. We may need a different approach or a different perspective. We can do that. We will improve. We’ve proven it time and again.

What hasn’t changed? We need you.

The TTA staff were so excited to get their Thank A Trucker t-shirts in! We love the way they look, feel, and fit. You can still order yours at the link below😊

https://www.bonfire.com/thank-a-trucker-campaign/



https://www.bonfire.com/im-a-trucker-campaign/

FMCSA and NIC have made not preventable crash data available on commercial drivers’ PSP records.

Crashes that are determined not preventable through FMCSA’s Crash Preventability Determination Program (CPDP) are now notated in PSP. If there is a crash on a driver’s PSP record that meets the not preventable criteria under CPDP, it may be submitted for review through DataQs at https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov . More information on eligible crash types and how to submit a Request for Data Review (RDR) visit the CPDP .

PSP records contain driver data including all FMCSA-reportable crashes that occurred in the last five years, and roadside inspections and violations that happened in the last three years.

For more information about PSP, please visit: www.psp.fmcsa.dot.gov

Our 2020 Silent Auction Committee kicked-off with a Zoom meeting last week. Below is the list of volunteer committee members who will be working very hard over the next few weeks to contact members about their auction item donations.

Greg Shipman is once again our very motivating Committee Chair with help from Anthony Allen - Willis Towers Watson, Julia Harcourt and Randy Hooper - Katz, Sapper & Miller, Sarah Heffington - M & W Transportation, Craig Kendall and Josh Ray - The Pete Store, John Seeman - Tag Truck Center, Perry Wilson - McKee Foods Transportation and TTA Staff Donna England, Dave Huneryager, Catherine Stuart and Ashlee Taylor. Please do what you can for this Foundation Fundraiser when someone from the Auction Committee calls or emails you.

The Auction will be very different this year. We will be trying a new online platform for the auction in order to help attendees social distance and also to give those who may not be able to attend an opportunity to bid. The items will be listed online and bidding will be in real time with notifications sent out on items you have bid on when someone outbids you. We think it will be very exciting and are proud to have this change in place for everyone's safety and convenience.

Below are links to the two forms for auction donations. The blue link is for the Auction Donation Letter and the red link is for the Donation Form. Here is a sampling of what we think would be popular to donate: gift cards and baskets, small electronics, ladies accessories, sports equipment, children's toys or teen items. Some of you donate cash and we purchase items listed for you. We thank you for all the past support and know that your support will get us through again this year!

Auction Letter:

Like many of you, we are trying to find some normalcy in our lives now. Our economy has been battered by this unprecedented viral attack. While all of our revenue events have been cancelled or re-scheduled for the year, we are hopeful that we will be able to be together in Destin for our 2020 Annual Convention and Auction. We are moving forward with that goal in mind. It will be a challenge to do this in a manner that will keep everyone safe and well, but we are working on that and plan to be there for our industry and to continue to provide crucial information and support to our members. We have been to convention in spite of other disasters, but nothing at the magnitude of this present one.  

The 111th Tennessee General Assembly adjourned sine die just after 3 a.m. on June 19th with agreements on the budget, but the two chambers failed to come to terms on major legislative initiatives such as COVID-19 protection for businesses, certificate of need legislation, and telemedicine. This month’s adjournment lacked much of the pomp and circumstance typically associated with sine die, perhaps a fitting end to a session that began with a new Governor and a considerable amount of new members, and would ultimately experience two different House Speakers, a tornado, a pandemic, three separate budgets in two years, and an uncharacteristic level of sparring between the two chambers regarding both the scope of legislation to be deliberated and -- in several cases -- the content of that legislation. Lawmakers also grappled with an unprecedented budget situation and frequent protests.  

CONTRIBUTIONS TO TENNESSEE TRUCKING FOUNDATION

IN MEMORY OF...