3rd Quarter - Report — ELITE STRATEGIC SERVICES for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SMALL TRUCKING… (2025)

Firm

ELITE STRATEGIC SERVICES

Client

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SMALL TRUCKING COMPANIES

Income

$22,000

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) Guidance regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles Phase 3 (GHG3) final rule and the Clean Trucks Plans 2022 Heavy-Duty Nitrous Oxide (NOx)

Lobbyist	Covered 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; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); SENATE; Small Business Administration (SBA)

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

Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace LBR

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

Lobbyist	Covered 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; SENATE

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 Waiver for noncompliant states with National Registry II Implementation with moving from paper to electronic medical certificates Eligibility standards for nondomiciled commercial learners permits and commercial drivers licenses

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

Contacted: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; Transportation, Dept of (DOT); Small Business Administration (SBA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

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

Government Issues GOV

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

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

Contacted: SENATE; Small Business Administration (SBA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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.