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Equipment Makers Set Up First ‘Fly-In’ With Washington Policymakers

September 20, 2017

The rare opportunity of reforming the federal corporate tax code and ensuring long-term funding for freight infrastructure in the coming months prompted the Association of Equipment Manufacturers to recently schedule its own meetings on Capitol Hill and the White House.

The event marked the association’s first stand-alone “fly-in” in the modern era, which featured about 50 of the group’s members from more than two dozen companies visiting 100 congressional offices during the week of Sept. 11. The group was founded more than a century ago.

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