News from August 2019
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FMCSA 31-13 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared South Carolina-licensed truck driver Arnold Bradford Williams to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle in ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Pennsylvania’s Keystone Rail Corridor Receives $40 Million from USDOT.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 72-13 News Digest U.S. Department of Transportation Extends Safety Pilot Model Deployment for Six Months. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration will extend testing of Connected Vehicle technology at the site of the Safety Pilot Model Deployment ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today released distraction guidelines that encourage automobile manufacturers to limit the distraction risk connected to electronic devices built into their vehicles, such as communications, entertainment and navigation devices.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 North American Surface Trade, January 2010 - December 2011 Table Version | Excel | CSV Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American neighbors, Canada and Mexico, was 11.6 percent higher in December 2011 than in December 2010, totaling ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 56-13 Airlines Report Two Tarmac Delays Over Three Hours on Domestic Flights, No Tarmac Delay Longer Than Four Hours on International Flights in April Airlines reported two tarmac delays of more than three hours on domestic flights and no tarmac delays of more than four hours on an international ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Royal Jordanian Airlines, EgyptAir, and Royal Air Maroc for violating the Department’s expanded airline passenger protection rules that took effect in January.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Investments Improve Access to Jobs, Promote Economic Development
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Three of Five Modes Carried More U.S. NAFTA Trade in August 2013 than in August 2012
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Largest Airlines Report Smaller Net Loss in 4th Quarter of 2012
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that the Department of Transportation is proposing to explicitly ban the use of electronic cigarettes on aircraft.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 17-13 U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Establishes National Freight Advisory Committee DOT Announces Proposal to Establish ‘National Freight Network’ WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced the establishment of a National Freight Advisory Committee to provide ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FHWA 13-13 U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces Additional $76 Million in Emergency Relief Funds for Hurricane Sandy Damage in New Jersey Federal Highway Support Totals $224 Million for Repairs to Garden State Roads and Bridges WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today issued a final rule requiring lap and shoulder seat belts for each passenger and driver seat on new motorcoaches and other large buses. This new rule enhances the safety of these vehicles by significantly reducing the risk of fatalities and serious injuries in frontal crashes and the risk of occupant ejection in rollovers.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NHTSA PRESENTS NATION’S TOP HIGHWAY SAFETY AWARDS FOR 2012
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FMCSA14-13 FMCSA Orders Immediate Shut-Down of Bus Company Rimrock Stages; Declares Company to be an Imminent Hazard WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Rimrock Stages, Inc., doing business as Rimrock Trailways and Rimrock ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today proposed a new rule that will require airlines to report more information on the amount and types of fees collected from passengers, as well as the number of checked bags and mishandled wheelchairs. The proposal would revise current reporting requirements to improve data collection on the amount airlines receive from different, specific types of fees.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FHWA 51-12 U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces an Additional $20 million in Quick Release Emergency Relief Funds for Hurricane Sandy Damage in New York Brings Total of Highway Funds to $49 Million for Impacted Region WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced he ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Funds will create jobs by expanding highway repairs and roadway safety
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Airline consumer complaints filed with DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division during the first nine months of this year were down 14.1 percent from the first nine months of 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
