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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced it has issued a notice of claim charging Mr. Cayetano Martinez, owner of Tierra Santa, Inc. bus company, with multiple federal motor carrier safety violations. The $72,...
WASHINGTON, DC - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne Ferro today announced the addition of eight new members to the agency's Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC).
May 11, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today launched its Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP), which allows commercial motor carrier companies to electronically access driver inspection and crash records...
Washington, D.C. - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro went to Capitol Hill to congratulate the student winners of the "Be Ready, Be Buckled" poster contest and deliver an important safety message on Monday, May 3, 2010.
WASHINGTON, DC -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration today issued a new rule that will require interstate commercial truck and bus companies with serious patterns of hours-of-service (HOS) violations to install electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a federal rule that proposes to specifically prohibit texting by interstate commercial truck and bus drivers. The proposed rule would make permanent an interim ban announced in January 2010 that applied existing safety...
WASHINGTON - New data from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration show 74 percent of commercial truck and bus drivers are now using their safety belts. Only 65 percent of drivers were using safety belts in 2007.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced it will hold a fifth public listening session on hours-of-service requirements on Friday, March 26, 2010, at the Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville, Kentucky. The Mid-...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following an emergency request by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), the United States District Court for the Central District of California on Saturday ordered the owner of Tierra Santa Inc, the illegal bus company...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced that Tierra Santa Inc., the company involved in the fatal bus crash in Phoenix today, was operating illegally. FMCSA investigators are on the premises of Tierra Santa’s place of business and conducting an...