One of the most successful and broad-based trade groups in the trucking industry, the Georgia Motor Trucking Association has been promoting its members’ interest in safety, business, and good government since it’s founding in 1933.

It is hard to imagine today, but in that earlier era trucking was a new, paradigm-shifting technology.  It held the promise of creating more personalized, market-oriented movements of freight by companies that were more engaged, nimble and responsive than the few railroads that had long controlled cargo.  Independent though they were, those early trucking company entrepreneurs soon discovered that market disruption brought political backlash.   Thus GMTA was born of necessity.  If the young industry was to survive and protect all the investments being made and the very qualities that made it so potentially valuable, its leaders would have to band together to ensure their competitors did not have sole access to the halls of power and the growing army of state and federal regulators.