«РАС»
Russian Motor Transportation Union (in Russian — RAS) was founded in 1999 as a non-profit organization. Its founders were 48 associations of automobile transportation. The main goal was to represent and protect interests of RAS members in the federal legislative and executive establishments, collaborating in creation of propitious conditions for activities related to the motor transportation in the Russian and overseas business fields.
On the present day there are more than 120 sectorial associations, including 14 all-Russian and interregional, the rest are of the regional level. They include 5 thousand enterprises and organizations, with the number of workers around 2 million people.