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FMCSA Orders Shutdown of Massachusetts Trucking Company

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it has ordered Lowell, Massachusetts-based Flavio Borges Prado, doing business as Golden Eagle Delivery, USDOT No. 2290193, to immediately cease all intrastate and...

DOT Announces New Hazardous Materials Safety Grant

FAST Act authorizes hazardous materials training grant

WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today announced $1 million in grant funding for training and outreach programs to help local...

News Digest DOT 66-16

FTA Announces National Online Dialogue on Transit Worker Assaults. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is conducting a National Online Dialogue on preventing and mitigating transit worker assaults from June 13 to July 25, 2016. An assault can be an overt physical or verbal act against bus...

US Department of Transportation adds AT&T to Smart City Challenge

WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that AT&T has become the newest strategic partner in the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)’s Smart City Challenge. The Smart City Challenge is a competition which will create a fully integrated, first-of-its-kind...

Passengers in Large Commercial Trucks Now Required to Wear Seat Belts

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced today that passengers riding in large commercial trucks will be required to use seat belts whenever the vehicles are operated on public roads in interstate commerce.  Effective...