Topic: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Progress Watch US road safety: Deaths lowest in more than 60 years. How we got there.

In 2011 the number of fatalities per vehicle miles traveled was the lowest ever, the Department of Transportation said. Technology and education are credited with the improved US road safety.

Two dead in Miami airport charter bus crash

Two men died Saturday, when the driver of an oversized charter bus failed to heed height warnings at Miami International Airport and crashed into a concrete overpass. 

Texas highway pileup: time to slow the ‘super truckers’ down?

Thick Texas fog played into the massive 140-car Thanksgiving pileup in Texas that killed 2 people and injured 80, but a lingering question is whether a lower Texas speed limit could curb highway bravado by motorists and professional drivers alike.

Energy Voices Fuel truck explosion kills 23 in Saudi Arabia; Are US trucks safe?

An explosion caused by a fuel truck crashing into a bridge in Saudi Arabia poses the question: What measures are in place to prevent fuel truck accidents in the US?

Illinois Megabus crash: Bus made in 2011, inspected days ago

Investigators on Friday were looking into passenger reports that the bus blew a tire just before it crashing. 

Feds shut down 26 intercity bus companies for safety violations

The unprecedented motorcoach safety crackdown primarily targeted bus companies operating along the East Coast's I-95, where crashes last spring left several people dead and dozens injured.

Feds had eye on Sky Express before Tuesday's deadly bus crash

US regulators had begun work to suspend operations of the Sky Express bus line even before a company bus flipped over Tuesday on an interstate highway in Virginia, killing four.

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