California's Department of Motor Vehicles is required to adopt regulations by Jan. 1, 2015, on their testing and use and is seeking public input.
Cost savings and workforce productivity ranked below it; last year's survey by GE Capital Fleet Services had the top two in reverse order.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced the plan shortly after a section of the highway bridge collapsed into the Skagit River.
Its first work will be done on 24 bridges in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Besides the estimated 407 traffic deaths, the council estimates 43,500 medically consulted injuries from motor vehicle collisions may occur during the period.
DOT has fined a ticket agent for violating code-share disclosure rules.
An Illinois passenger carrier bus company was shut down after an investigation by the DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
The two bridges benefitting from the project connect the east and west sides of the Michigan city.
The first ones sent to customers went to ANA, the manufacturer announced.
More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the world's roadways each year, according to the agency.
The bill will increase fines for motorists illegally bypassing garbage trucks.
Their report analyzed 180 fatal crashes from 2009 to 2011 where the evidence indicated a driver had used a cell phone. Only 52 percent of them in the latter year were coded that way, however.
"Our primary goal is to help local communities to plan and prepare for heavy truck traffic and hazmat transportation incidents," said Texas A&M Transportation Institute Associate Research Scientist David Bierling, who is leading a study with Research Specialist Debbie Jasek in eight Texas counties.
The Highway Loss Data Institute reports City Safety, Volvo's low-speed collision-avoidance system, is helping drivers avoid fender-benders on congested roads.
Destiny Tours, in Toledo, Ohio failed to gain the proper federal permission to carry out interstate business.
These funds will improve tribal area roadways, some of the most dangerous in the country.
For the first time, the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2011 include data on fatal injuries involving contractors.
The April 29 event is set in Minneapolis, where the number of bikes on the roads has risen by 56 percent during the past six years.
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx is the selection to replace Ray LaHood.
MMWR published an analysis of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2003-2010, which tabulated 128 deaths in offshore and on-shore operations.