Opinion: How Accident Recorders Can Improve Driving
Those familiar with accident event recorders know this technology offers many valuable benefits for transportation operations. AERs, which record both video and audio when a driving incident occurs, can help to improve driver performance, reduce accidents and save lives. The technology also offers other significant, but less publicized, advantages such as decreased expenses and enhanced driver/management relationships.
September 18, 2009Philadelphia Factory Index Improves for Second Month
Manufacturing levels in the Philadelphia showed expansion for a second straight month in September, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.
September 17, 2009Housing Starts Rise to Nine-Month High
U.S. housing starts rose 1.5% to a nine-month high in August, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
September 17, 2009DOT, EPA Set Auto Fuel-Economy Guidelines
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson released proposed regulations for boosting automobile fleet fuel economy to reach 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, the Associated Press reported.
September 16, 2009TSA Sets Interim Rule on Air Cargo Security
The Transportation Security Administration announced an interim final rule implementing air cargo security regulations.
September 16, 2009DOT Sets Agenda for Distracted-Driving Summit
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Wednesday released the detailed agenda for DOT’s Distracted Driving Summit, scheduled for Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 in Washington.
September 16, 2009Horizon Lines to Add Tampa to Its Service to San Juan
Shipping, trucking and logistics firm Horizon Lines said that it will add regularly scheduled vessel container service between Tampa, Fla., and Puerto Rico, the Associated Press reported.
September 16, 2009Consumer Price Index Increases in August
The consumer price index rose 0.4% in August, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
September 16, 2009Business Inventories Fall 1% in July; Sales Rise
Business inventories fell in July for an 11th straight month, while sales showed the first back-to-back gain in a year, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
September 16, 2009Obama Approves Tariffs on Chinese Tires
President Obama has approved an increase on the tariff charged on car and light truck tires imported from China, the Associated Press reported.
September 15, 2009