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WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced an important new safety rule that requires healthcare professionals who perform medical examinations for interstate truck and bus drivers to be trained, tested, and certified on the specific physical qualifications that affect a driver’s ability to safely operate the vehicle.
Read More →Further, the study concluded that complaints from critics of this technology were not substantiated by the data.
Read More →Although the DOT is delaying the final ruling, the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007 requires a final ruling is made no later than 36 months after the date of the Act's enactment, which occurred on Feb. 28, 2011.
Read More →WASHINGTON – NHTSA and the DOT proposed new guidelines designed to encourage automakers to limit the risk of driver distraction when using communications, navigation, and entertainment technologies built into vehicles.
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For the Big Apple Circus, transporting this small fleet requires a big top’s worth of planning. Learn how Tom Larson and his crew take the circus on the road, where the fleet manager becomes the ringmaster.
Read More →WASHINGTON - Public hearings on the new fuel-economy standards will take place in January in Detroit, in Philadelphia, and in San Francisco to allow further public input.
Read More →PRINCETON, NJ- On August 9, President Barack Obama announced a national program of standards for work trucks, buses, and other heavy-duty vehicles with the goal of raising fuel efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Read More →Vienna, VA -- The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety has partnered with the U.S. Department of Transportation to offer a free comprehensive toolkit to help companies address distracted driving and improve the driving safety of employees, employee family members and the members of the community in which the organization operates.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new fuel economy labels, the first overhaul of the labels since the program began 30 years ago.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - Responding to President Obama's call to help reduce the regulatory burden on U.S. businesses, American Trucking Associations (ATA) highlighted nine outdated, obsolete, or onerous rules that the Department of Transportation should reconsider.
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