Phil Byrd News Updates

Special Coverage, Business

ATA Forms Committee to Explore Highway Funding Options

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A special committee of top motor carrier executives will meet in Dallas in late March to discuss fundraising mechanisms other than a fuel-tax increase to pay for the next highway bill, American Trucking Associations Chairman Philip Byrd Sr. announced March 11.

March 11, 2014
Business

Byrd Asks Dealers’ Help, Pushes Industry Image

NEW ORLEANS — The chairman of American Trucking Associations pleaded with truck dealers to make adjustments to their operations to better assist fleets and asked them to join the campaign to improve the industry’s image.

February 3, 2014
Special Coverage, Business

Phil Byrd Elected ATA Chairman

ORLANDO, Fla. — Philip Byrd Sr., president of Bulldog Hiway Express in Charleston, S.C., was elected the 69th chairman of American Trucking Associations here Oct. 22.

October 22, 2013