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Earlier this year, 1st District Congressman Frank Guinta sponsored a bill to regulate freight brokers and to "increase the effectiveness of Federal oversight of motor carriers."
With the backing of three powerful trucking lobbies, the “Fighting Fraud in Transportation Act 2011, FITT, (H.R. 2357),” introduced last week by Reps. Russ Carnahan (D-MO) and Frank Guinta (R-NH), would increase bond amounts and strengthen requirements before anyone can begin brokering freight.
Guinta and Carnahan worked closely with OOIDA, the Transportation Intermediaries Association, and the American Trucking Associations in writing up the legislation.
Now it seemed out of character for Guinta to be taking the lead on regulating the trucking industry. After all, this is a man who said the "central focus of the challenges that we face in this 112th Congress" is ending the "overregulation that is strangling our small businesses." This is a man who disdains federal regulation so much that he said we don't even need the FDA to regulate food safety.
But then I reviewed Guinta's second quarter campaign finance report and I see $1000 contributions from, you guessed it, the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association PAC (OOIDA PAC), the Transportation Intermediaries Association PAC (TIA PAC), and the Trucking PAC of the American Trucking Associations, Inc. (Truck PAC).