CBP wants data on every person who is aboard a private aircraft before it lands in the United States from a foreign location or leaves a U.S. location for a foreign destination.
This year's nationwide crackdown (Nov. 18-25) is making law enforcement mindful of pickup truck occupants and rural motorists.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has published notice of the next Unified Carrier Registration Plan Board of Directors meeting. It will occur via telephone on Dec. 6 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time.
DARPA's event tested robotic cars' ability to independently navigate a challenging urban course that is similar to many military theaters today.
With 585 deaths in 2005, this group accounted for a disproportionate 10 percent of occupational fatalities that year.
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week 2007 starts immediately after the end of Daylight Savings Time this weekend. Are you ready for Monday morning's commute?
Addressing the effectiveness of federal drunk driving programs, NTSB Chair Mark V. Rosenker noted that, "while alcohol-related fatalities have decreased since 1982, there has been little improvement in the last 10 years."
Revoking the 11-hour driving limit and the 34-hour restart, or keeping them in place only temporarily pending some other change, would create severe difficulties for thousands of Canadian cross-border trucking companies and drivers who must comply with the U.S. rules, CTA says.
Some learn by listening, others by doing. Everyone learns from experience. But when we're learning defensive driving, that experience comes at the cost of increased risk because it requires going out into the real world to practice classroom-taught lessons.
Trasportation Safety
Trucking groups threaten to take the ports to court and have asked the Federal Maritime Commission to block the clean air plan.
General Motors (GM), OnStar and the University of Michigan Medical School are working together to collect crash and injury data that could lead to engineering safer cars and trucks and getting the right kind of help to a crash scene.
On Sept. 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a 90-day stay on its decision that struck down the 11-hour daily driving limit and 34-hour restart provisions of the Hours-of-Service regulations, which govern truck driver work and rest periods.