Keeping the Industry Rolling

Since its founding in the 1930s, the Indiana Motor Truck Association has represented trucking professionals across the state, backing important legislation, sharing knowledge, promoting safety, and providing networking opportunities.

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IMTA: A Clear Mission and Vision

Our Mission

To serve, represent, and promote the trucking industry's interests by enhancing its image, efficiency, and productivity by focusing on safety and advocacy.

Our Vision

The Indiana Motor Truck Association will advocate for the trucking industry by promoting highway safety, providing educational programs, and fostering a healthy business environment.

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Discounts on seminars, events, and a range of IMTA-endorsed products. The IMTA is your safety resource. We have relationships with the FMCSA, INDOT, One Stop Shop, and ISP CVED—just to name a few. Take some time to explore our website to review our association.

Member-Driven

All IMTA members have an opportunity to participate in committees and councils actively. From safety to professional development, our councils inform and shape the industry by creating a community committed to progress. Get involved, and make a difference.

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We just might be your most economical employee. When you need information quickly, give us a call or submit a request online. We do all the research for you and report back in a timely manner. We’re committed to bettering Hoosier trucking.
  • 7% sales tax on diesel fuel eliminated for private carriers
  • A proposed $8.75 trailer registration renewal fee was killed
  • Removed the 4-point assessment on a driver’s CDL for overweight citations
  • Tractor-trailers now have the right of way in roundabouts
  • Reduced the proposed IRP registration fee increase of 50% to 25% (apportioned fee)
  • Removed onerous overweight load civil penalties and established reasonable enforcement statutes
  • Established lack of seatbelt use as evidence in a jury trial

Advocating for You

The History of IMTA, The Beginning

We’ve served the interests of the trucking industry for over 80 years. Click below to see some highlights from the association's most notable and historical moments.
1931
​The General Assembly passed the first laws in Indiana regulating the sizes and weights of trucks operating on the highways. A group of pioneer truckers felt the time had come for a strong organization, so the Indiana Motor Traffic Association was formed on December 13, 1931.
1932
​Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State on Jan 4, 1932. The original directors were: Samuel Schlosser (Plymouth), Edward Buhner (Seymour), John Madden (Indianapolis), and Samuel Hadden (Indianapolis). Indiana was in fiscal straits. Gov. Harry Leslie called a special session in July and asked Legislators to find ways to raise additional revenues. HB701 was introduced and would have imposed half a cent on every ton-mile traveled by Indiana-owned trucks and buses operating intra-state. Trucks and buses owned by railroads were exempt. Members of the IMTA rallied to fight, stating that many trucking companies would have been put out of business if this bill passed.
1933
​With the help of Maurice Tucker, the American Trucking Association (ATA) was established.
1935-36
​IMTA Chairman Maurice Tucker recalled at one point during the “terrific fight” sitting up all night, calling practically every truck operator in IN. He also sent telegrams via Western Union so that the next morning, the Chairman of the Roads Committee had 500 telegrams on his desk voicing truckers’ opposition to the ton-mile tax. The newborn IMTA had limited resources compared to the Railroads who had sent 23 lobbyists with $35K to buy influence.

“Now this might not sound very important to a lot of people, but if you can realize at that time how the industry was struggling and knowing the fact that Indiana is a key state, and if the railroads were successful in putting that bill out, they would have bottled up the state to a point where it would have put the industry back years and maybe put a kibosh on the whole doggone thing, particularly in the Midwestern, southern and part of the eastern states because we could not have possibly operated under the bill except with parcel post shipments, and I don’t know if we could have competed with Uncle Sam on parcel post shipments at that time. I think that was the first time that the trucking industry got a start. Had this bill gone through, every state in the union would probably have tried to get the same kind of bill. A small group of us worked no less than 20 hours a day because it was a fight from the beginning to the end.” -Maurice Tucker

​After 48 days of continuous scrambling and struggling, the truckers prevailed, and the bill was killed.
1937
​Highway Safety Programs were evolving within the association. Thirty-two drivers with the Indianapolis branch of The Kroger Company are awarded for driving a year without an incident. The IMTA won an award from ATA, which is awarded annually to the association that makes the greatest contribution to safety. This award was given for three consecutive years, 1935-37.