President Donald Trump gets in the driver's seat of an 18-wheeler while meeting with truck drivers and trucking CEOs prior to their meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., to discuss health care on Thursday. The president joined the truckers shortly after meeting with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus over the contentious effort to write a new health care law. The ATA says the Affordable Care Act has saddled trucking companies, especially smaller firms, with extra costs, liabilities and administrative burdens. Replacing the law would lower insurance premiums and reduce those burdens, ATA President and CEO Chris Spear said in a statement after the meeting. “We want to be cautiously optimistic, but 30% of truckers do not have health insurance because of high costs.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 24, 2017 00:55 UTC