Archive for date: December 17th, 2014

Re-printed from September 2012 CTN Magazine

Bill Does Not Eliminate Threat of Disqualification for Major or Serious Traffic Offenses

A bill sponsored and supported by various trade associations and organized labor including the California Trucking Association (CTA) and the California Teamsters Union will give California commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders a minor break when it comes to keeping points off their licenses. Read more

Well……..shockingly, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has given us a hearing date of Feb. 9, 2015, a Monday.

On December 1, CCTA counsel received notice from the Ninth Circuit’s clerk that our case is set for oral argument on Feb. 9, beginning at 9:30 a.m. in San Francisco. Each side will have 15 minutes to present their case arguments. We are actually last on calendar that day, with five cases ahead of us. Assuming they follow that order, we likely will not get called until 11:00 or 11:30 a.m., either way we will be there when court begins at 9:30 a.m. Read more

Because the October Annual Board Meeting fell during this period, we did not run an article about all the changes to the CCTA Bylaws that the board approved primarily dealing with CCTA Chapters or as they are now referred to within a new section “Subdivisions”.

It’s important to note that we did send a Meeting Notice Card out to all members 3 weeks before the annual meeting like the one below, explaining the bylaws changes and the opportunity to vote for those changes. Read more

As we have discussed on many occasions, our goal is to expand CCTA/AADT product and services offering in addition to our normal and continued political and regulatory oversight efforts. We are in the process of rolling-out a new expanded AADT-Plus enhanced services offering. Read more