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U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy visited Tesla Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where he was joined by CEO Elon Musk. What Happened: "We're thrilled about the future of autonomous vehicles and Tesla, one of the great companies that are evolving this technology," Duffy said...

All 64 passengers and crew members aboard an American Airlines regional jet have died after the plane collided midair with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, officials confirmed Thursday. The crash, which sent both aircraft into the...

The U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division and the Department of Transportation announced on Thursday they have opened a broad public inquiry into the state of competition in air travel on topics including previous airline mergers, aircraft manufacturing, airline ticket sales, pricing and...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is apparently using yet another state agency in his ongoing crusade to defeat two constitutional amendments that will appear on the ballot in the November 2024 election. This time it's the Florida Department of Education, which is helping pay for a new television ad...

The Biden administration is asking a "broad range of stakeholders" involved with moving freight to help solve the country's container and intermodal chassis shortages while also trying to alleviate supply chain chokepoints. In an information request to be posted in the Federal Register on Thursday...

Two U.S. senators last week introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at helping short line railroads and passenger railroads finance capital investment projects. Republican Senator John Thune (South Dakota) and Democrat Senator Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire) introduced the Railroad Rehabilitation...

A Congressional investigation into allegations that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has used her office to benefit her family's shipping company is being roundly rejected by the transportation chief. In the first of a "rolling production of responses" to be sent to the U.S. House...

A former California Department of Motor Vehicles' (DMV)  employee was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison for his part in a fraudulent commercial driver's license scheme. Aaron Gilliam pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery, identity fraud and unauthorized access of a computer in U.S...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed a rule to deploy vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V) technology in light vehicles to reduce crashes by helping vehicles “talk” to each other. Problem-Solving Through Communication “This long promised V2V rule is the next step...

Cheaper gas and an improved economy have been blamed for the rise in number of traffic deaths last year, according to preliminary data released by U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The data from NHTSA show a 7.7 percent increase in motor...

Experts have been pointing out the need for regulation for the use of commercial drones in the United States for quite a while now. And, it seems their voices have finally been heard. On Tuesday, the Department of Transportation’s (DoT) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced the...

As of 2013, the most recent year in the analysis, Frontier Airlines ranked as second most complained-about, reflecting a spike that began in 2012 and pushed it past United Airlines, whose complaints peaked in 2012. Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ: SAVE) passengers complain more than riders of any other...

If you are someone who flies four or more times a year, chances are you do not want to listen to other people talking on their cellphones while you are on an airplane. According to a poll by The Associated Press released Wednesday, more than three out of four frequent fliers (78 percent)...