5 www.ortrucking.org Issue 1 | 2024 ADVOCATING, EDUCATING, AND PROMOTING THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY EVENTS UPCOMING EVENTS engaged in other litigation to protect your interests. Most recently we joined the lawsuit that challenged the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) over their rules with the Climate Protection Program that was enacted through executive order in the last administration. We prevailed in that ruling—and now DEQ will begin their process again and we will be there providing input on your behalf. The Land Conservation and Development Department (LCDD) also drafted rules around this environmental executive order that we have challenged along with other associations, and we are waiting for a ruling on that. They want to assert control over the size and placement of roads—imagine two agencies with conflicting power to define this! The battles are getting bigger….and harder. We need your support and your help. Contribute to our Legal Fund. There is a button on the front page of our website that allows you to do that easily! Contribute to TruckPAC and ask your employees to consider making a taxdeductible contribution as well. Reach out to those trucking businesses that you interact with through your community involvement or your business needs and ask them to become an OTA member and to get involved. We have lots of opportunities if you want to volunteer to help OTA as well. Just give us a call! Hopefully the economy will start turning around this year, and the trucking industry can pull out of the economic slump we have been in over the past eighteen months. I know that you have been focused on your business during these hard times, but there is no time like the present to build for a better future. Let us know how we can help you. And help us grow the strength of this association by bringing in new members. We are waiting to hear from you!
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