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WASHINGTON, D.C. --- U.S. Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood on April 30 ordered a full departmental review of motorcoach safety. A motorcoach safety action plan will be created from the review's findings.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The number of traffic deaths on U.S. roads last year reached a record low, while seat belt use continued to climb, the U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced Monday, April 6.
Read More →WASHINGTON – Manufacturers plan to work with Congress, the states, and the administration to help bridge competing fuel economy proposals, set aggressive standards through 2015, and direct efforts toward meeting a national standard of at least 35 mpg by 2020.
Read More →WASHINGTON – Manufacturers plan to work with Congress, the states, and the administration to help bridge competing fuel economy proposals, set aggressive standards through 2015, and direct efforts toward meeting a national standard of at least 35 mpg by 2020.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters last week announced that the number of people killed in traffic crashes is expected to reach a new record low in 2008, with early projections showing an almost 10-percent drop in highway traffic deaths in the first 10 months of this year.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Americans drove more than 100 billion fewer miles between November 2007 and October 2008 than the same period a year earlier, making it the largest continuous decline in American driving in history.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) released its 2007 estimate of total highway fatalities, and the data indicate that last year there were 41,059 deaths overall, a 3.9 percent decline from 2006 and the lowest number since 1994.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters on Tuesday, July 8, unveiled a new plan to improve the federal government's automobile crash tests and strengthen its five-star vehicle safety rating system.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Several safety initiatives designed to reduce collisions between motor vehicles and trains will be completed before the end of 2008 as part of the ongoing U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Highway-Rail Crossing Safety and Trespass Prevention Action Plan, announced DOT Secretary Mary E. Peters.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced a new rule June 30 aimed at making it more difficult for commercial transportation workers to cheat on their required drug tests.
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