Brigadier Gen. Robert O. Tarter, an experienced pilot, starts today with an organization that facilitates safety performance and reduces runway hazards.
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said fuel efficiency standards for passenger vehicles and light trucks would increase by 4.5 percent per year during a five-year period ending in 2015.
The event comes as fuel surpasses labor as some motor carriers' largest expense and the trucking industry deals with the highest prolonged fuel prices in history.
The nation's biggest railroads want relief from their requirement to transport toxic inhalation hazard materials.
The U.S.Fire Administration's report examines the area's emergency preparedness and response to the Aug. 1, 2007, bridge collapse in Minneapolis that killed 13 people and injured 121 others.
"The outstanding efforts of these dedicated safety groups, lawmakers, and citizens have helped focus attention on the problems associated with non-seatbelt use and impaired driving that have resulted in far too many tragedies on our roadways," said DOT Secretary Mary E. Peters.
Many participating retail outlets use the opportunity to educate motorists about proper tire care and maintenance with free tire pressure checks and "Be Tire Smart" brochures.
NTSB's preliminary data shows an overall decrease in aviation accident fatalities of 30 percent, the lowest in more than 40 years
Three new directives focus on landing gear of older Boeing 737s and the wing de-icing system and in-cabin oxygen masks of some Boeing 757s.
The auto maker said it has received complaints that the system is misclassifying a small adult as a child and preventing the passenger-side bag from inflating in a crash.
The DOT agencies proposing the rule say the May 14 meeting will focus on chlorine transport and the May 15 meeting on anhydrous ammonia.
AAA says its new analysis should spur more state action on graduated driver licensing programs.
A new bill introduced last week requires the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study on how to protect the blind and others from being injured or killed by vehicles using hybrid, electric, and other silent engine technologies.
Measles is contagious from approximately four days before through four days after the rash appears. Symptoms begin seven to 21 days after the exposure to the disease occurred.
Armed with the most money ever appropriated for emissions reduction grants, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is calling on all applicants to submit their application packages today no later than by 5 p.m.
Replacement of the driver and front passenger door glass bolts will be done at no charge, Toyota said.
So far, only 79 of the airline's 300 MD-80 aircraft have returned to service.
Chlorine gas leaked by the January 2005 incident devastated the Avondale Mills plant and killed six of its workers. The plant never reopened.
Air traffic controllers at the airport outside Washington, D.C., started using ASDE-X on April 1.
A classroom and training center on rails will travel to 10 communities along the Mississippi River corridor in the next month to provide training to emergency responders.