UCR Registration Now Open for 2024 | | UCR Trademark License Needed for State Agencies | |
In order to protect the Unified Carrier Registration Plan’s intellectual property, the UCR Plan closely monitors the internet for cases of trademark infringement in an effort to ensure the UCR name and logo are used appropriately. Toward that end, the UCR Plan requests that all States using the UCR logo complete a simple license agreement to authorize your use of the UCR name and logo.
If your State uses (wants to use) the UCR Plan logo, please email aleath@legal.ucr.gov listing your proposed use of the logo and request a copy of the license agreement. Please return a signed copy of the signed license agreement to that same email address (aleath@legal.ucr.gov). Address any questions that you may have about the license agreement to that email address.
| | UCR at the CVSA Annual Conference | |
UCR Executive Director Avelino Gutierrez (left) and Chief of Staff Matt Mantione (right) attended the CVSA Annual Conference in Grapevine, TX.
The CVSA Annual Conference and Exhibition provides the opportunity for government officials, enforcement and industry to gather together to affect meaningful changes to the overall culture of transportation safety throughout Canada, Mexico and the United States. The 2024 Conference will take place in Big Sky, Montana from September 8-12.
| | UCR Policy Spotlight: The UCR Agreement | |
The Unified Carrier Registration Agreement is an interstate agreement governing the collection and distribution of registration and financial responsibility information provided and fees paid by motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies pursuant to the Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005, 49 U.S.C. § 14504a.
The UCR Agreement is currently published in the UCR website as an interim document pending publication in the Federal Register for the purpose of soliciting and receiving public comment and after consideration of the filed comments, final approval from the UCR Board.
*The September Dispatch erroneously stated that the UCR Handbook is an interim document. The Handbook should be used as a guide for questions regarding policy. The above UCR Agreement is in interim form pending formal approval.
| | ATA Leader Chris Spear Reflects on Gains, Sees Opportunities for Trucking | |
In preparation for the upcoming ATA Management Conference & Exhibition in Austin, Texas, ATA President Chris Spear is focused on a list of issues that fleets, drivers, shippers and other stakeholders consider important to the industry, including expanding truck parking, workforce development and bringing more young people into trucking.
| | Source: Dan Ronan. "ATA Leader Chris Spear Reflects on Gains Ahead of Conference." Truckers News. October 4, 2023. www.ttnews.com | | Truck transportation employment ranks rebound | | Truck transportation jobs have rebounded sharply from the low levels reported a month ago, when the closure of Yellow Corp. resulted in a big decline in employment. When the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its August report jobs in the truck transportation sector showed a decline of 36,700. But the BLS report for September jobs, released Friday, October 6, shows that almost half that original decline has been recaptured. | | Source: John Kingston. "Truckload transportation employment ranks rebound." Freightwaves. October 6, 2023. www.freightwaves.com/ | | | |
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