About TLAA

What this is

Trucking and Logistics Alliance of America is a membership association of trucking and logistics companies, organised as a nonprofit corporation in Wyoming. Member companies join for representation on matters that affect how they operate, for compliance material written for people who do the work, and for a membership record that a broker or an insurer can verify.

We are not a broker, a load board, a compliance vendor, or a rating agency. We do not verify anyone's safety record and we do not certify carriers. Where we hold data about a member — an operating authority number, for instance — we record what the federal register says without forming a view about it.

Who it is for

Motor carriers of any size. That is a deliberate choice rather than an omission: most associations in this industry are organised around large fleets, and the operator running nine trucks has the same regulatory burden with none of the compliance staff.

Vendors, brokers, insurers and equipment suppliers can join as associate members. They participate in events and committees. They do not vote, and they are not eligible for the board — an association whose governance is open to the companies selling to its members eventually starts working for them instead.

How it is governed

A board elected by the voting membership. One vote per member company, not weighted by fleet size and not weighted by dues paid — a weighted vote in an association of competitors means the largest members set the agenda, which is how a trade body ends up representing an industry segment rather than an industry.

Elections are run on a published schedule with a published candidate process. Results, including turnout, are published. Board minutes are kept and made available to members.

Staff run the association day to day and do not set positions. A position taken in the association's name is adopted by the board, and the record shows when and by what margin.

Limits we work within

Our members compete with each other. That fact shapes what this association can host, and we publish the boundary rather than keeping it in an internal policy: there are conversations we will not convene and data we will not collect, and both are enforced in the software rather than left to the judgement of whoever is in the room.

Read the antitrust policy — it lists the specific features we have not built and why.

On being new

We have no membership figure to quote and no legislative record to point at. Associations that publish those numbers early tend to be counting something generous, and a founding member deserves to know what they are actually joining.

What we can be judged on now is how the thing is built: whether the verification check works for anyone who tries it, whether the antitrust limits are real, whether the join and cancel paths are the same length. Those are all visible today.