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FMCSA Recruiting Drivers and Carriers for HOS Study

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is looking for truck drivers and carriers willing to participate in an hours-of-service driver restart study.

January 16, 2015

TT Archives: U.S. Department of Transportation Starts

Pictured in this issue of Transport Topics, DOTs first secretary, Alan S. Boyd, celebrated the department's first official day of operation on April 1, 1967, by riding in the hot air balloon Golden Bear with balloonist Don Piccard.

January 19, 2015

Rep. Huffman Pushes Bill to Replace Gas Tax

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) this week introduced a bill that would replace the diesel and gas tax with a carbon tax, the latest congressional proposal aimed at boosting transportation dollars ahead of the reauthorization of a major highway law this spring.

January 14, 2015

Driver Shortage, Truck Parking in New Resiliency Definition

WASHINGTON Transportation officials have expanded the scope of their resiliency planning beyond infrastructure to such issues as how to make trucking more adaptable to driver shortages and inadequate truck parking, said a top official at the Federal Highway Administration.

January 14, 2015

Democrats Announce T&I Committee Members

Peter DeFazio of Oregon, ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has announced the Democrats who will serve on T&I in the new Congress.

January 14, 2015

Shuster Names Missouris Graves to Head Highway Subcommittee

Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) has been selected to head the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

January 13, 2015

Commercial Truck Safety Makes NTSBs Most Wanted List

WASHINGTON Strengthening commercial truck safety has made it onto the Most Wanted List of policies and actions issued annually by the National Transportation Safety Board.

January 13, 2015

Despite Progress, Diesel Emissions Still an Issue for Environmental Regulators

WASHINGTON Environmental officials from California and the East Coast said during a Transportation Research Board panel here that trucks still require special attention because of diesel emissions, even though such output became much cleaner from 1998 to 2010.

January 12, 2015

Foxx Comfortable With Decision to Open Border to Mexican Trucks

WASHINGTON Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said his department had plenty of information under which to justify opening the U.S. border to Mexican trucks despite a report from the Inspector General that said there were too few participants in a pilot program to determine if all Mexican trucks were safe enough to run U.S. roads.

January 12, 2015