After 911, the ATA looked at security and concerns that trucks could be used as weapons like in other countries. We tried to find a way to address terrorism, and trucking was the best way to get drivers involved.

After 9/11, the ATA looked at security and concerns that trucks could be used as weapons like in other countries. We tried to find a way to address terrorism, and trucking was the best way to get drivers involved.

In the next few years, we'll have to double the amount of security guards because of the [planned chemical weapons] destruction facility.

Saddam's weapons pose a grave threat to international peace and security, ... We must not shrink from our commitment.

Biological weapons are no longer a potential threat, but a real threat to the safety and security of the United States,

to meet their obligations to stop the flow of terrorist financing and weapons, and particularly on Iran and Syria.