Latest Transportation Headlines
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Oil, Rail Firms Propose Phasing Out Old Tank Cars
Jul 15 2014 // The oil industry and the railroads that haul its crude have offered U.S. regulators a joint plan to phase out a type of older tank car tied to a spate of fiery accidents, according to two people familiar with the...
Horgan, Pace Join Transportation Insurer Canal Insurance in South Carolina
Jun 24 2014 // Canal Insurance Co. in Greenville, South Carolina, has named Tim Horgan as vice president, Transportation, and chief marketing officer, and Bob Pace, vice president and chief claims officer, to the executive leadership...
U.S. Agencies Join Probe of Fatal California FedEx/Bus Crash
Apr 14 2014 // FedEx Corp. will be in the spotlight of U.S. safety investigations operating alongside local law enforcement inquiries after a fiery truck-bus collision killed 10 people in California. Two federal agencies said that they...
Malaysia Plane Loss Spurs Calls to Upload ‘Black Box’ Data to the ‘Cloud’
Mar 20 2014 // The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has prompted calls for in-flight streaming of black box data over remote areas, but industry executives say implementing changes may be complex and costly. Mark...
U.S., Canada Officials Say Tougher Oil Train Safety Rules Needed
Jan 27 2014 // Warning that a “major loss of life” could result from an accident involving the increasing use of trains to transport large amounts of crude oil, U.S. and Canadian accident investigators urged their governments...
Canada, U.S. Safety Agencies Urge Fast Action on Oil-by-Rail Cars
Jan 24 2014 // North American regulators should phase out the type of rail car involved in last July’s deadly Lac-Megantic crash “sooner rather than later,” Canadian investigators said on Thursday, urging the United...
Commuter Train Crashes Prompt Call for Safety Improvements
Jan 17 2014 // Commuter rail accidents including a New York derailment last month that killed four prompted a U.S. investigative agency to name improving transit safety as its top priority for 2014. The National Transportation Safety...
NTSB: Technology Upgrade Likely Could Have Prevented N.Y. Train Derailment
Dec 12 2013 // Federal safety officials say a technology upgrade they’ve been recommending for years would probably have prevented the Dec. 1 train derailment that killed four people in New York. Metro-North derailment scene in...
Rescheduled Asiana Crash Hearing to Probe Pilot Reliance on Automation
Dec 10 2013 // A U.S. safety regulator’s hearing on the July 6 crash of an Asiana Airlines Inc. plane in San Francisco was postponed today due to the federal government’s weather-related closing. The day hearing will be...
New York Metro-North Becomes Inquiry Magnet After Held Up as Rail Model
Dec 3 2013 // Two years after being singled out for international honors, Metro-North Railroad finds itself facing a wave of retirements, under three federal safety investigations, and explaining to officials and riders why a locomotive...
New York Metro-North Derailment Puts Spotlight on Rail Safety
Dec 2 2013 // A deadly derailment on a curve in Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line rekindled safety concerns and promised to snarl today’s commute for thousands of riders on one of New York’s major mass-transit...
NTSB Faults Parade Plans in Fatal Texas Train Collision
Nov 11 2013 // The lack of safety planning by parade organizers and the city of Midland, Texas, has been faulted by federal investigators in an accident in November 2012 in which a freight train rammed a tractor-trailer truck towing a...
Federal Safety Regulators Criticized for Missing Bus Safety Hazards
Nov 8 2013 // U.S. bus regulators are overlooking or not catching serious safety hazards before fatal crashes and need to change their auditing practices, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier...
NTSB: 2 Dead BART Workers in California Charge of Own Safety
Nov 4 2013 // National Transportation Safety Board investigators say under Bay Area Rapid Transit rules, the two track workers who were killed in a recent accident were responsible for their own safety. James Southworth, the...
NTSB: 2 Dead BART Workers In California Charge Of Own Safety
Oct 24 2013 // National Transportation Safety Board investigators say under Bay Area Rapid Transit rules, the two track workers who were killed in an accident Saturday were responsible for their own safety. James Southworth, the...
All Risks Offering WC for Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Risks
Oct 21 2013 // All Risks’ Workers Compensation Division has launched it’s third specialty class, non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT), with an exclusive A.M. Best “A” rated market. This WC unit has direct...
Tough-to-Kill New York Buses Drive Through U.S. Law’s Loopholes
Sep 3 2013 // Outside New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where “Mamma Mia” is nearing the end of a 13-year Broadway run, unwitting tourists board a bus bearing the name of a company U.S. regulators tried to close two...
Safety Probes at Risk Without More Funding: NTSB
Aug 20 2013 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, handling the most accident investigations since the 1990s, is “going to have to let some things go” if budget cuts aren’t restored, Chairman Deborah Hersman...
U.S. Safety Rule for Oil Trains Delayed for Year
Jul 31 2013 // The Obama administration has delayed by nearly a year a plan to boost safety standards for the type of rail car involved in a fiery explosion that killed at least 47 people in Canada this month. Officials began work on the...
Transportation Insurer National Interstate Posts Surprise Loss
Jul 31 2013 // National Interstate Corp., the insurer majority owned by American Financial Group Inc., plunged the most since 2008 after reserves for claims in prior periods proved inadequate, fueling a surprise quarterly loss. National...
