Sentences with phrase «us department of transportation»

Talking with SCORE mentors who've been in your business, scouring the state department of transportation website, and talking with officials at the city / town and state level should provide you with everything you need to know.

Speaking at CES, Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced the one million drone registration figure and explained the government's next step in revamping national drone rules, according to the Las Vegas Review - Journal.

You'll become very familiar with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) no matter what transportation business you choose to start.

In 2013, the Department of Transportation reached out to us after the Lac - Mégantic train disaster.

Fliers paid airlines a record $ 1.2 billion to carry their checked luggage and $ 720 million to change or cancel their tickets in the third quarter, according to the Department of Transportation.

An Amtrak passenger train derailed onto the I - 5 freeway outside of Seattle, the Washington State Department of Transportation confirmed in a tweet Monday.

The Department of Transportation, which held discussions in 2016 with mental and physical disability rights groups about which animals should be allowed in airplane cabins, said it will monitor Delta's policy to make sure it is in line with the rights of passengers with disabilities who travel with service animals.

For her part, Chao entered the Department of Transportation pledging to revise the self - driving car blueprint.

And a spokesman for the Department of Transportation said in July the agency was «still reviewing its options for how best to utilize the Committee going forward and on what specific scope the Committee should focus.»

It also gives the federal Department of Transportation regulatory power over space mining flights — yes, the same agency that keeps the airline industry running on time.

The U.S. Department of Transportation states that each airline must «give all passengers who are bumped involuntarily a written statement describing their rights and explaining how the carrier decides who gets on an oversold flight and who doesn't.»

There are no statistics to show whether texting played a role in any of the fatalities, but «when you keep records for 40 years and see two consecutive years with the back - to - back largest, that tells me there was a game changer,» said Richard Retting, a former traffic safety commissioner for the New York City Department of Transportation who worked on the report.

«The Department of Transportation has the authority to require critical safety information be made publicly available, but it has never used its authority.»

When that work dried up, he tried to bid on a project for the New York Department of Transportation, but the work required a bond.

Because I'm not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover,» he wrote at the time.

As the Department of Transportation (DOT) says, «Almost any planeload of airline passengers includes some people with urgent travel needs and others who may be more concerned about the cost of their tickets than about getting to their destination on time.

In its most recent report, published on July 14 but covering the month of May, the U.S. Department of Transportation said carriers that reported performance data showed that 21 % of their flights were delayed.

Deborah Hersman, National Safety Council president and CEO, discusses the Department of Transportation's newly proposed guidelines for distracted driving.

Florida Rep. Charlie Crist writes letter to Department of Transportation after complaints of price gouging by United Airlines.

«These monthly reports are of little or no value because such animal losses, injuries or deaths are extremely limited in number,» it said in its letter to the Department of Transportation.

Last year, United transported 138,178 animals, from mastiffs to geckos, according to the Department of Transportation.

«The TSA needs to offer the same kind of transparency the Department of Transportation offers with on - time data,» says Karimzad.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports on the on - time percentage rates of major US airlines from May from the Department of Transportation.

(The Department of Transportation told me that it's looking into Robledo's experience, working in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, the agency that enforces the Animal Welfare Act.)

Those are the findings of a new Milecards.com study, which crunched five years of on - time arrival, gate - to - takeoff times and landing - to-gate time data reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

According to Young's Supreme Court petition, her manager told her that UPS offered light duty to workers who sustained on - the - job injuries, employees with ailments covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act, and those who had lost Department of Transportation certification because of physical aliments like sleep apnea; not — the manager said — to pregnant workers.

We're already talking to the Texas Department of Transportation on other things and the city of Houston.

The company previously raised $ 2.2 million through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and it received a $ 750,000 contract from the U.S. Department of Transportation to conduct tests in 2011.

The U.S. Department of Transportation sided with the airlines and initially denied Virgin America's application late last year.

«For the Department of Transportation to conclude that United Airlines» conduct did not warrant an enforcement action is a dereliction of duty,» he argued.

Following the decision made by the Department of Transportation, Paul Hudson, president of Flyers Rights, criticized the agency.

The Department of Transportation has set minimum amounts passengers must receive if they are involuntarily denied boarding.

Contact the department of transportation and ask whether major construction is planned for nearby roads.

According to a May 12 letter made public by passenger advocacy group Flyers Rights this week, the Department of Transportation decided not to fine the airline.

Last December the U.S. Department of Transportation dropped proposals that would have required airlines to disclose checked and carry - on bag fees at the start of a ticket purchase rather than later on.

A good mix of other government agencies — the General Services Administration (GSA), the IRS, the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation — has filled the gap.

The rule adds screening for hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone and oxycodone, the Department of Transportation said.

Airlines looking to cash in on thawing relations between the United States and Cuba had until Wednesday to submit applications to the Department of Transportation for proposed flight routes between the two countries, USA Today reports.

Amazon's proposed delivery service hit some significant turbulence Sunday with proposed new rules for drone operation from the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation.

The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversee drones in the national airspace, released rules in Aug. 2016 for how businesses can use drones for tasks like aerial photography or to monitor farms.

The current head of the FAA, Michael Huerta, will remain in his seat until 2018, but Trump plans to nominate Elaine Chao, who previously served as the secretary of labor under the Bush administration, to lead the Department of Transportation.

«We've met with Capitol Hill, staff on the Transportation Infrastructure Committee [of Congress], the Pentagon, Homeland Security, the State Department, Department of Transportation,» Egli said.

These smartphone devices are completely banned by the Department of Transportation from air transportation to, from, or in the US.

Blowing and drifting snow prompted the closure of Interstate 70 just east of Denver to the Kansas state line, the Colorado Department of Transportation said.

Two - thirds of the state's roads are in mediocre or poor condition, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

SecureIDNews reports the state's Department of Transportation is hoping for a public roll - out in 2016.

Instead of punishing individual transportation workers whose trucks may be too old, a more comprehensive solution could target the Department of Transportation, with demands to repave worn roads with the porous asphalt configurations used in Europe to reduce tire noise.

Indeed, although FRA supplanted the ICC as the agency responsible for promulgating and enforcing railroad safety programs in 1966, see Department of Transportation Act of 1966, 49 U.S.C. 103, the general framework established by the order of March 13, 1911 is still in existence today.

As part of the Michigan legislation, the law will establish the Michigan Council on Future Mobility, an arm of Michigan's Department of Transportation, to recommend policies setting industry standards.

CHINATOWN — The federal Department of Transportation released more information Thursday on the dangers of Fung Wah Bus, including that the company allegedly falsified safety records, nearly a month after the DOT shut down the company over safety concerns.