Lockheed Martin's SLICE Crew Transport Vessel is part of the alliance that will make embarkation less risky for arriving and departing crews.
Commercial drivers allowed up to 11 hours of driving time within a 14-hour, non-extendable window from the start of their work day, following 10 consecutive hours off duty.
General Electric Transportation System now is urging all railroads that have a locomotive with the suspect main reservoir tank to replace it by Sept. 30, 2008.
Under an Interim Final Rule that was made public yesterday by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, truck drivers will continue to be limited to driving only 11 hours within a 14-hour duty period, after which they must go off duty for at least 10 hours. The IFR was developed after new data showed that safety levels have been maintained since the 11-hour driving limit was first implemented in 2003.
Stephen R. Kratzke, the associate administrator for rulemaking, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will be a featured speaker at the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association's Heavy Duty Dialogue '08, an annual conference for executives and leaders in the heavy duty industry that is set for Monday, Jan. 21, 2008 at the Danny Gans Theatre, The Mirage, Las Vegas.
The chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Aviation asked for the audit, saying he is concerned about air traffic controller training and the high rate of failures.
Today, frontal airbags are standard equipment on all passenger vehicles, and U.S. government figures credit airbags with saving more than 25,000 lives over the past two decades. In large part, Americans can thank Joan Claybrook and Sen. Elizabeth Dole for that, AHAS says.
"The secret to safety is anticipating what the road conditions will be like and adjusting your speed accordingly," says MDOT Director Kirk T. Steudle.
The grants will help move technologies from the prototype to the testing phase and were awarded as part of the Highways for LIFE program.
Dia Gainor will be Chair and Captain Raymond Fisher will be Vice Chair of the ITS America PSAG, serving two-year terms beginning in 2008.
Because of heightened security concerns and recent hazmat transportation incidents, the shipping paper has come under more scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and state inspectors than ever before. Shippers and carriers are being asked to demonstrate their compliance with all regulations for preparing their hazardous materials for shipment. Moreover, of the 304 civil enforcement actions closed from May 2005 to April 2006, 215 were shippers in violation of one or more of the hazmat regulations.
During its decade long existence, the campaign assisted in bringing about a shift in the way children 12 and under were transported in vehicles--in a rear seat.
Personal injury frequency at the Jacksonville-based railroad is 1.14 per 200,000 man hours year to date, 51 percent better than FY2004's rate of 2.33, the board says.
A terrorist who has to overcome multiple security layers in order to carry out an attack is more likely to be pre-empted, deterred, or to fail during the attempt.
Diverting states' federal highway funds to cover the cost of seat belts and higher seat backs for large buses could hurt efforts to battle more important problems, the group's chairman says.
Because winter offers its own hazards and here we are at the last weekend in November, author John Myre says now is a good time to have the following 10 tips in mind for protecting your home and family:
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced a new federal rule requiring higher seat backs and setting new seat belt standards for the nation's 474,000 school buses.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration must wait for DOT's FY2008 appropriation bill to be signed to award the money, however.