Tag: grassroots advocacy

Channel 19

Grassroots advocacy, redux — more on last week’s meetings in Congressional offices

Talking with Va.-based HHG-hauling owner-operator Dave McCauley about the meeting he initiated with Senator Ted Cruz, attended by truckers from different groups and locales — he urges drivers to do similar: “Go talk to these people. They put their pants on the same way we do in the morning.”

January 27, 2018

Overdrive Radio

From the scene in D.C. and around the country as grassroots groups press against the ELD mandate

This week’s Overdrive Radio podcast: Anti-ELD demonstrators in D.C. met with officials at FMCSA offices Thursday after spending Wednesday spread across the city in small groups. Tony Justice on tactics. A sampling of calls from around the country about events this week.

October 5, 2017

Channel 19

Introducing ‘Drivers for the TRUE Safety Act’

In November Chris Gadarowski launched the “Drivers for the ‘TRUE Safety Act'” Facebook page as a grassroots gathering point for those in favor of the bill’s call for an independent hours review attendant to a rollback of changes made last July.

February 8, 2014