We at the AIPBA/SBTC are getting pretty excited about what we believe is about to happen soon and wanted to ask you to help us connect the dots here... Three months ago, in reference to our original broker bond petition that AIPBA started way back in 2010 (see: petitiononline/100KBOND/petition.html), I received an email from FMCSA that stated: This is to let you know that the Agency is aware of petitiononline and we have reviewed your comments to the public docket, along with the other comments. We consider the impact of our regulatory actions on small businesses and we are considering these responses carefully before issuing a decision in the matter of the AIPBA exemption application. As you probably heard last week, FMCSA has advised AIPBA they have made a decision on the now one year old Broker Bond Exemption Application (aipba.vpweb/upload/AIPBA_Exemption_Letter.pdf) and that this decision will be released in a few weeks via the Federal Register. We will be watching for it every day... FMCSA has invited me to their offices in Washington, D.C. next week (the date of which, just happens to be the one-year anniversary of the filing of the exemption application above) in my capacity as Chairman of the broad new Small Business in Transportation Coalition (SBTC) in furtherance of my call for industry and government to work in PARTNERSHIP to identify and solve industry problems equitably. See our website: smalltransportation.org. FMCSA has now advised us they are in fact sending a speaker to our Industry at Sea event next month to give the Bon Voyage address: (industryatsea). You really should attend this event if you can. So dont miss the boat! We believe there is now clear writing on the wall here and that good news for the smaller and mid-sized players is about to come down the pike from FMCSA in that all signs now point to a win on the AIPBA Exemption Application, which would we believe entail the elimination of the $75,000 broker bond once and for all and resolve our pending Federal lawsuit over the broker bond issue. CALL TO ACTION We are therefore writing to you today to ask you what you think and to revive the media buzz on the broker bond issue in preparation for what we believe is about to happen. You can help, by voting in our social media poll and telling us what you think at: https://apps.facebook/my-polls/bwmlor?from=user_wall&ref_id=qcmlyt&fb_action_ids=10203555724547166&fb_action_types=og.shares&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582 Please do take a moment to show your continued interest in this very important issue and vote in the poll above via Facebook... Thanks, James Lamb
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:10:00 +0000
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