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RRB issues financial report 27 Aug 2013 | 06:59 pm
The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is required by law to submit annual financial reports to Congress on the financial condition of the railroad retirement system and the railroad unemployment insuran...
FAA issues policy on aircraft cabin crewmembers 23 Aug 2013 | 11:02 pm
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), working with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Aug. 22 iss...
TTD asks lawmakers to restore RRB benefits 23 Aug 2013 | 10:57 pm
The Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO has written letters to all members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House or Representatives asking them to restore full unemployment and sickness benefi...
FRA issues guidance memorandum on EO 28 23 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
The Federal Railroad Administration has issued a guidance memorandum for Emergency Order 28, which seeks to prevent trains operating on mainline tracks or sidings from moving unintentionally. The mem...
Szabo ‘shocked’ at MM&A’s one-person train crews 23 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
The nation’s top railroad administrator has told the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway that he is “shocked” that the company has not adopted a policy of using two-person crews on its trains in the Un...
Avantair to be liquidated 22 Aug 2013 | 08:16 pm
Clearwater Fla.-based Avantair’s assets will be sold off and the company liquidated after it failed to meet a deadline last week to contest an involuntary Chapter 7 filing in the Florida Middle Distri...
Canada eyes PTC following disaster 22 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
After the recent disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is looking at possibly implementing positive train control (PTC) systems on its railroads. In 2010 a...
Former UTU Vice President Kenneth R. Moore dies 22 Aug 2013 | 07:18 pm
Moore Former UTU International Vice President and Bus Department Director Kenneth R. Moore, 85, died Aug. 18. Born in Danville, Ark., Moore began his career in transportation as a bus operator for t...
UP seeks to install in-cab cameras 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
OMAHA, Nebraska — At least two major U.S. freight railroads are seeking to install cameras in their locomotives to make sure crews are following rules and avoiding cellphone use. Union Pacific asked ...
Nigro to join Omaha Labor Day festivities 21 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
This Labor Day, SMART General President Joseph Nigro will be present for the Omaha, Neb., Labor Day parade and other festivities. The SMART Transportation Division, led by Transportation Division Nebr...
