Hours of service regulations for drivers of large, heavy trucks were created to keep fatigued drivers off the road in order to prevent accidents, as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) writes in its Interstate Truck Driver’s Guide to Hours of Service. For example, as the FMCSA states on its [...]
Although there is no law requiring used car dealers to stop selling recalled vehicles, AutoNation has announced that none of its 293 franchises across the United States will sell any vehicle that has an open safety recall, as Ashlee Kieler reports for Consumerist. Kieler goes on to quote a statement made [...]
As no long-term transportation bill has been approved by the House, Congress will need to take some action before the three-month extension to fund highway maintenance and construction ends at the end of October, writes Dave Zweifel for The Cap Times. Either that, he adds, or the highway fund will have [...]
Reaching the areas where jobs are most plentiful has become a problem for many low-income Americans, who are now living in suburban areas. Many of these families have migrated to the suburbs because housing costs there are now lower than they are in cities, but are finding that the jobs they [...]
Utah’s recent move to raise gasoline taxes to fund transportation could be a model for other states, especially since it was a bipartisan effort in a Republican dominated legislature, as Eric Jay Toll writes for Phoenix Business Journal. Those supporting the bill found that in Utah, a conservative state, the arguments [...]
The U.S. House Committee on Highways and Transit is considering a bill that would permit border states to designate certain funds for infrastructure projects, according to Congress.gov. The bill, H.R. 3181, was introduced in the House late last month by Congressman Will Hurd (R-TX), Congressman Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), and Congressman [...]
U.S. Senator Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) introduced Bill S.1806 on July 21 for greater auto safety standards. Titled the SPY Car Act of 2015, it would “require used car dealers to repair defects in the vehicles they sell, eliminate caps on fines for automakers and impose criminal penalties on auto executives who [...]
It has been shown that wildlife crossings — overpasses and underpasses combined with fencing — reduce those accidents in which vehicles collide with deer-sized and larger animals by an average of 87%, according to an article appearing in ITE Journal (the journal of the Institute of Transportation Engineers). The article says [...]
Reps. Ryan (R-Wi) and Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) introduced a bill on July 13 that would extend federal transport spending for highway and transit programs through the end of this year, as DC Velocity writes. The legislation, “H.R. 3038 - Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II,” passed 312-119 by [...]
