2nd Quarter - Report

ELITE STRATEGIC SERVICES for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SMALL TRUCKING COMPANIES

Period 2nd Quarter 2025 Filed Jul 1, 2025 Signed by James Edwards

Official filing
Firm
ELITE STRATEGIC SERVICES
Client
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SMALL TRUCKING COMPANIES
Income
$20,000
Expenses
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What was lobbied

4 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Clean Air and Water (quality) CAW

H.R. 346/S. 996 (Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act) H.R. 2165 (Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act)

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
JAMES R EDWARDS LD, Rep. Ed Bryant; LA/Press Secretary, Rep. John Duncan; Special Assistant, Senate Judiciary Committee

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 2165 (119th), H.R. 346 (119th), S. 996 (119th)

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

Independent contracting in trucking H.R. 20/S. 852 (Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act)

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
JAMES R EDWARDS LD, Rep. Ed Bryant; LA/Press Secretary, Rep. John Duncan; Special Assistant, Senate Judiciary Committee

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: S. 852 (119th), H.R. 20 (119th)

Transportation TRA

H.R. 1659 (Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act) H.R. 880/S. 337 (Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection Act) H.R. 2819/S. 1696 (Deregulating Restrictions on Interstate Vehicles and Eighteen-Wheelers (DRIVE) Act) H.R. 2853/S. 1404 (Combating Organized Retail Crime Act) freight fraud provisions Highway Trust Fund fuel tax, vehicle miles traveled Rescinding FMCSAs speed limiter mandate on all heavy-duty commercial motor vehicles (FMCSA-2022-0004-0001) Rescinding FMCSAs automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems mandate Automatic Emergency Braking Test Devices: Heavy Vehicle Automatic Emergency Braking (Docket No. FMCSA-2022-0171) Mitigation of Final Rule, Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs: Addition of Oral Fluid Specimen Testing for Drugs (Docket No. DOT-OST-2021-0093-0420) provisions related to specimen collectors USDOT Office of Inspector General freight fraud enforcement, National Consumer Complaint Database (OMB Control Number: 2126-0067) reforms USDOT advisory committees proportion of representatives from small motor carriers Commercial motor carrier regulatory policy issues, including Compliance Safety Accountability program/DataQ

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
JAMES R EDWARDS LD, Rep. Ed Bryant; LA/Press Secretary, Rep. John Duncan; Special Assistant, Senate Judiciary Committee

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Small Business Administration (SBA)

Bills named: S. 337 (119th), H.R. 2819 (119th), S. 1404 (119th), H.R. 880 (119th), S. 1696 (119th), H.R. 1659 (119th), H.R. 2853 (119th)

Government Issues GOV

Executive Order 14192, Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation Executive Order 14286, Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for Americas Truck Drivers

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
JAMES R EDWARDS LD, Rep. Ed Bryant; LA/Press Secretary, Rep. John Duncan; Special Assistant, Senate Judiciary Committee

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Small Business Administration (SBA); SENATE

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.