Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association
@OOIDA
🚛 OOIDA is the national trade organization fighting for the rights of all truckers since 1973. 🚚
OOIDA scores huge wins for truck drivers with DOT announcement! 🎉 👉 Eventually, the message can break through. #OOIDA has spent years – and sometimes decades – advocating for issues that affect the lives of truck drivers. 📲 Learn more from @Land_Line_Mag:…
We want D.C. bureaucrats OUT of your trucks so we’re eliminating the absurd speed limiters rule. Truckers are the backbone of the American economy — why on earth would we make their jobs harder and less safe by preventing them from keeping up with traffic flows?! Thank you…
☠️RIP Speed Limiters ☠️ Thank you to @SecDuffy and @realDonaldTrump for listening to truckers! 🔊Sound on
CLASSIFICATION FIGHT ISN’T OVER Congress is quietly pushing the Modern Worker Empowerment Act (MWEA) — a bill that would help mega-carriers exploit drivers under the “independent contractor” label. OOIDA just called it out. This isn’t about freedom — it’s about control. Full…
GOD BLESS OUR TRUCKERS!
☠️RIP Speed Limiters ☠️ Thank you to @SecDuffy and @realDonaldTrump for listening to truckers! 🔊Sound on
“The old ways of doing things in Washington are over. After nearly 20 years, big trucking’s proposed speed limiter mandate is dead." - #OOIDA's @Lewie_Pugh 📰@AmericanAgNet ✍️@jesseallenag 🔗tinyurl.com/yhtp44ya
"This failed proposal represented the worst of Washington and the worst of trucking: big corporations trying to use big government to undercut small businesses and increase corporate profits." - #OOIDA's @Lewie_Pugh 🚚
🚛💨 Speed limiter mandate scrapped! Feds hit the brakes on the rule after years of debate. @USDOT @FMCSA @NHTSAgov @OOIDA @TRUCKINGdotORG @WeAreSchneider #Truckers #RoadFreedom #FMCSA #TruckingNews #Safety #SpeedLimiters #Trucking #TheTrucker bit.ly/44LDS45
🗓️Throwback Thursday to celebrate @USDOT's withdrawal of the dangerous speed limiter mandate. Thank you @RepLaMalfa for being an ally to truckers in Congress! 🚚 #OOIDA
"A state should probably be determining their speed limit, not an agency here in Washington, DC." #OOIDA's @Lewie_Pugh and @RepLaMalfa discuss government overreach at @TransportGOP hearing. ⏱️ Speed Limiter Mandate 🪫 EV Truck Mandate 🔊🔊🔊
The ATA was established pre-deregulation where it represented a different sample in terms of industry make up, being there weren’t many small, single truck operators in large numbers back then. The trucking industry is 9/10 small carrier now and the small carrier is the lifeline…
The ATA wants to expand the size of its dues, not help the industry make more money
If safety is your highest priority you don’t lower minimum age, you raise it.
🎯Nailed it
The ATA wants to expand the size of its dues, not help the industry make more money
Over 500,000 Commercial Drivers Licenses are issued annually in the United States. That’s 40,000+ PER MONTH. *Not including the illegal ones. America’s supply chain should not run on identity fraud, foreign labor abuse, and race-to-the-bottom rates!! WE DO NOT HAVE A LABOR…
Today Overdrive published the first-ever state-by-state guide to non-domiciled CDL issuance including evidence of more than 60,000 active such licenses even excluding big states like CA, NY, NJ and VA. Reporting from all 50 states, 11 FOIAs, boat loads of data. Link below.
Trucking voices clashed in a Senate hearing over automation, debating its impact on safety, jobs, and the future behind the wheel. ow.ly/Rilj50WtG9j
🚛 Trucking leaders hit DC: parking, safety, AI, & driver shortages top the agenda. Bipartisan action ahead? @FMCSA @TRUCKINGdotORG @OOIDA @Teamsters #Truckers #FreightNews #FMCSA #Trucking #Bipartisan bit.ly/3IYWjJZ