Stepping up to highway safety
May 1, 2005 By LP Gas
Commercial motor vehicle highway safety should become the next major state traffic initiative, the U.S. House of Representatives has decreed.
Read More DOT seeks to dismantle RSPA
March 1, 2004 By LP Gas
The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed dismantling the Research & Special Programs Administration and moving the Office of Pipeline Safety into the Federal Railroad Administration – an agency familiar with hazmat transportation – as a result of heightened security fears.
Read More No place to hide
January 1, 2004 By LP Gas
The sophisticated technology that the Department of Homeland Security may mandate for hazardous materials haulers can also benefit a propane marketer’s bottom line.
Read More Look for more hazmat safety measures
November 1, 2003 By LP Gas
We may see some new federal efforts next year to improve hazmat carrier safety.
Read More Hazmat truck safety rules altered
November 1, 2002 By LP Gas
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has correctedand clarified a number of truck safety rules.
Read More Feds ponder new hazmat trucking regs
September 1, 2002 By LP Gas
The federal engine is being tuned up to take its first ride towardfurther regulation of hazmat trucking.
Read More Worn roads pose biggest hazmat safety risk
August 1, 2002 By LP Gas
Rising demand and wear and tear on the nation’s roadways – not problems with security, per se – is causing the biggest problems for transporting hazardous materials. Improving roadways would increase hazmat transit safety more than specifically addressing hazmat transportation shortcomings, according to a report from the Research and Special Programs Administration.
Read More Pipeline safety remains high priority
January 1, 2002 By LP Gas
The Office of Pipeline Safety continues to evaluate risk and explore ways to protect pipelines from becoming weapons against the United States.
Read More Protecting our roadways from terrorists
December 1, 2001 By LP Gas
Should ground transportation law be rewritten to consider protecting fuel from terrorist attack? Or should the government back off from regulating the trucking industry? An already hectic Congress just had these issues dumped in its lap.
Read More House, Senate battle over funding issues
August 1, 2001 By LP Gas
President Bush has nominated Ellen Engleman as administrator of the Research and Special Programs Administration. Engleman, awaiting Senate confirmation, is chief executive officer of Elecricore, a public-private energy solutions partnership based in Indianapolis.
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