The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee announced a telephone conference meeting for Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST. Here is the rather opaque agenda that has been announced.
1. Call to Order Larry W. Minor, Designated Federal Official, MCSAC
2. Opening Remarks David R. Parker, Chair, MCSAC
3. New Business Warren Dunham, Facilitator, MCSAC a) Approval of Task Statement 09-01 (National Agenda for Motor Carrier Safety)
b) Review of 2009-2010 Proposed Meeting Dates
4. Adjournment Larry W. Minor, Designated Federal Official, MCSAC
Members of the public may access the meeting by telephone conference.
Bridge Line: 1-877-940-3750, Passcode: 1435220 Web Link: http://fhwa.na3.acrobat.com/mcsac
Ken Shigley has served as chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Litigation Institute, co-sponsored by the Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina Trial Lawyers Associations. He is on the National Advisory Board for the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, and is a frequent national seminar speaker for the Interstate Trucking Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice. A member of the Million Dollar Advocates, he has successfully tried trucking accident cases to multimillion dollar verdict. He has lectured on trucking litigation topics at continuing legal education programs both at home in Georgia and in Nashville, New Orleans and St. Louis, and is scheduled to do so in Chicago this fall. A Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, he is also a Master of the Lamar Inn of Court at Emory Law School, a faculty member for ten years at the Emory University Law School Trial Techniques Program, and has been listed as a “Super Lawyer” (Atlanta Magazine) and in Georgia’s “Legal Elite” (Georgia Trend Magazine). He is Secretary of the 40,000 member State Bar of Georgia.