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DOT names five federal credit assistance program projects
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday, April 24, announced the selection of five projects to apply for a Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan: • Port of Long Beach...
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DOT eliminates traffic sign replacement deadlines
The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday, May, 10, announced the elimination of 46 regulations on traffic signs to provide more flexibility for state and local governments, including allowing...
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Agency orders shutdown of two carriers, one driver
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on March 21 ordered Oak Park, Mich.-based Highway Star Inc. and Atlanta-based General Trucking Inc. to immediately...
View ArticleDOT adding four opioids to drug testing panel for truckers
New drugs that drivers will be tested for include hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, and oxycodone. The drugs are usually taken as pills. According to the CDC, opioid abuse has seen a dramatic...
View ArticleTruck lanes in Arizona, other highway projects get a boost from U.S. DOT
The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program will help fund the building of a new freeway in Nebraska, the widening of I-57 in Illinois, and the separation of trucks from...
View ArticleDOT raises fines for violating trucking regs
A final rule that published in the Federal Register today, Nov. 27, makes the new fine amounts effective immediately. The 2015 Act required FMCSA and other DOT agencies to issue an initial "catch-up"...
View ArticleDOT launches second Jason’s Law truck parking survey
The new version of the survey is meant to update the inventory of truck parking and identify improvements to truck parking availability since the first survey; evaluate truck travel by state to...
View ArticleDeadline to file comments on detention time is next week
FMCSA is looking for information on available data about loading, unloading and delay times at shippers and receivers; technology that could track detention time; how contracts between carriers and...
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