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SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe it was simply a case of a father’s love of trucking rubbing off on his young son as he grew up in a tiny town about an hour’s drive north of the sprawling C.R. England headquarters here.

It is a distinct honor to be able to represent America’s motor carriers and the employees and independent contractors working on behalf of those companies.   I have appreciated the leadership that has been provided by Barbara Windsor, Tommy Hodges and all the fine chairmen who have preceded them.

Agricultural lobbyist Jon Samson has been appointed executive director of American Trucking Associations’ Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference.

When we gathered in Phoenix last year, I said I was hopeful that, like the mythical bird the city was named for, our industry was preparing to rise from the ashes of the deep recession we’d just fought through and that, when we came together in Grapevine, as with many things in Texas, things would be “bigger and better” for our industry.

This will be a busy week for the leaders of the nation’s trucking industry who will be meeting at American Trucking Associations’ annual Management Conference & Exhibition.

The Environmental Protection Agency has filed a motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by Navistar Inc., rejecting the engine maker’s claims that the agency must test selective catalytic reduction technology engines with the SCR system turned off, running without diesel exhaust fluid, and running with water instead of diesel exhaust fluid.

Xata Corp. Thursday reported a fiscal third-quarter loss of $500,000, or 4 cents per share, compared with net income of $600,000, or 2 cents, a year ago.

PHOENIX — American Trucking Associations wants to reinvigorate its operational councils, the group’s president said at industry meetings here, and especially in the field of technology, where significant developments have changed freight transportation dramatically.