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What Does The Coalition Support?

• We believe men and women should have the opportunity to live the American Dream by choosing to operate as small business owners through the independent contractor model.
• We believe professional independent truckers deserve a voice, and access to educators, policymakers, the media, and the general public to share their stories of business hurdles and successes, their personal and professional goals, and their need to keep this vital business model alive and well. These people represent small businesses and our nation’s present-day success is due in large part to these small businesses and their predecessors – many of whom became today’s regional and national motor carriers.
• We believe professional independent truckers need resources and support to stay relevant and viable in an ever-changing economy and freight environment.

The professional independent trucker model accounts for a significant portion of our nation’s professional truck capacity and has a history in the trucking industry that is as long as trucking itself.

In many instances, it serves as the bridge between being an employee driver to becoming a full-fledged motor carrier with a federal motor carrier number. In other instances, this model is the ultimate professional destination for the truck driver. They are a small business, often operating one truck, where they choose the carrier they contract to. They get to pick and choose freight, buy the truck that best suits their professional goals, and pick and choose vendors; yet they don’t have the pressures of maintaining the customer base, the federal motor carrier number, and the payroll of employees. The professional independent trucker model is one that works well as a stepping-stone for some or a perfect, long-term fit for others.

 FUNDING

The Coalition is funded through voluntary contributions. Funding is used to support the development and deployment of independent contractor ambassadors, working in unison with state trucking associations and others, to advocate on behalf of the independent contractor business model.

OBJECTIVES

• Leveraging the resources of the coalition member organizations to develop and deploy a unified and focused national message that clearly conveys the importance of the independent contractor business model to the overall U.S. economy;
• Establishing an ambassador program made up of independent contractors to personally and systematically deliver the message that the independent contractor business model is the result of an affirmative decision that is profitable and rewarding to independent truckers and is critical to the trucking industry capacity equation;
• Magnifying the voices of the hundreds of thousands of independent contractor truckers operating in the U.S. to increase their operational safety, efficiency, and profitability, and;
• Supporting an operating environment that promotes the continued generation of independent contractor capacity, thereby creating more small businesses and jobs for the U.S. economy.

For More Information About The Coalition Or Becoming An Ambassador, Contact:

Bill Webb
Executive Director Truckers Service Association
bwebb@legacyfem.com
(214) 205-7495