News from August 2019
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined three online ticket agents for failing to adequately disclose to consumers when flights were being operated under a code-sharing arrangement. Two of the companies also were cited for violating the Department’s rules prohibiting deceptive price advertising in air travel.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Mass. projects are among 255 projects in 48 states
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Project Supports President’s ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Strategy; Spurs Job Creation and Economic Development
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood Announces $59.3 Million for Clean, Energy-Efficient Transit Projects Across the United States
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Two weeks ago, I helped dedicate the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, which bypasses the narrow, two-lane road atop the Hoover Dam. It is a marvel of engineering, the longest bridge of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, and it rests on the tallest precast concrete columns ever fashioned.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined online ticket agent Orbitz $50,000 for violating the Department’s expanded airline passenger protection rule by failing to clearly and prominently inform consumers that they may have to pay baggage fees, and directed the company to cease and desist from further violations.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 45-13 Airlines Report No Tarmac Delays Over Three Hours on Domestic Flights, One Longer Than Four Hours on International Flights in March Airlines reported no tarmac delays of more than three hours on domestic flights, but one tarmac delay of more than four hours on an international flight in March, ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: MARAD Awards Contract to Analyze Maritime Investment Options in Great Lakes Region.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: FMCSA 34-13 FMCSA Orders Mississippi-based Carbo Limo of Oxford to Cease Interstate Passenger Service WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Oxford, Miss.-based Carbo Limo of Oxford, LLC, USDOT No. 1525224, to immediately ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 5-13 U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Appoints Lynn Deavers as new Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Accountability Officer WASHINGTON – Today, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced he is appointing Lynn Deavers as the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Accountability ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The nation’s largest airlines reported no flights in October with tarmac delays of more than three hours, down from 11 flights in October 2009, with a slight decrease in the rate of canceled flights, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Vehicles represent 85 percent of all MY 2013 vehicles sold in the U.S., to be tested as part of tougher safety ratings program
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: BTS Releases North American Surface Trade Numbers for December: December 2012 U.S. Surface Transportation Trade with Canada and Mexico Totaled $71.9 Billion
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: DOT 104-13 Statement of U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx Over the past few weeks, we have heard of concerns raised by airlines, travelers, flight attendants, members of Congress and others who are all troubled over the idea of passengers talking on cell phones in flight – and I am concerned ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today said that Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) violated federal rules last October by not providing passengers on an aircraft diverted to Washington Dulles Airport an opportunity to leave the plane before it was delayed on the tarmac for more than four hours. DOT fined PIA $150,000 and ordered the airline to cease and desist from further violations.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NHTSA 47-12 New NHTSA Analysis Shows 2011 Traffic Fatalities Declined by Nearly Two Percent Highway deaths fell to lowest level in more than six decades, down 26 percent since 2005 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today released ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: BTS Releases Interactive State Transportation Facts and Figures.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NHTSA 08-13 NHTSA Survey Finds 660,000 Drivers Using Cell Phones or Manipulating Electronic Devices While Driving At Any Given Daylight Moment Motorists are urged to put down their electronic devices and focus on driving during National Distracted Driving Awareness Month WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: November 2012 Passenger Airline Employment Down 2.0 Percent from November 2011
By DOT News Wire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: BTS Releases Nationwide Freight Data: American Industry Shipped 11.7 Billion Tons of Goods in 2012
