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Dec 22 2025 // Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a business jet carrying retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six others tried to return to a North Carolina airport just after takeoff but plowed into light poles and a...
Sep 29 2025 // The U.S. Transportation Department tightened commercial driver’s license requirements for noncitizens on Sept. 26 after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers.The new...
Nov 3 2025 // The National Transportation Safety Board wants the owners of nearly 2,000 Learjets—which have long been associated with the rich and famous—to urgently inspect their landing gear to make sure they won’t collapse...
Feb 18 2025 // The crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport may have had inaccurate altitude readings in the moments before the crash,...
Apr 17 2025 // The Newark fire department’s lack of training and familiarity with marine firefighting during a deadly cargo ship fire at the East Coast’s largest port in July 2023 amounted to a “failure of...
Nov 17 2025 // The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a public board meeting this week to determine the probable cause of the contact of the containership Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge and subsequent bridge...
Mar 21 2025 // The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is harshly criticizing Maryland officials for failing to conduct a risk assessment of the Francis Scott Key Bridge before it collapsed a year ago and is recommending that 30...
Mar 7 2025 // Standard market woes, captive growth and the increased importance of navigating relationships with third-party administrators — insurance experts in the commercial trucking arena have helped their clients traverse a...
Mar 21 2025 // A series of chain-reaction crashes and a fire in a Wyoming highway tunnel that killed three people started when a pickup truck lost control and partially blocked traffic on the slick roadway, federal investigators said.It...
Jun 27 2025 // Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at a problem, the...
Jun 23 2025 // The pilot of a small plane that crashed near a North Carolina airport this month had raised a wheel after landing to avoid hitting a turtle on the runway, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary...
May 7 2025 // A deadly explosion that leveled one Missouri home and damaged two others happened after a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas main while installing fiber optic cable, the National Transportation Safety...
Mar 12 2025 // A report from the National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday urgently recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) permanently prohibit helicopter operations near Washington’s Ronald Reagan National...
Oct 15 2025 // Alliant Insurance Services acquired Texas Insurance Agency in Laredo, one of the U.S.’s busiest international trade ports, specializing in cross-border trucking risk and insurance; as well as McAfee Insurance Agency...
Apr 7 2025 // The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is harshly criticizing Maryland officials for failing to conduct a risk assessment of the Francis Scott Key Bridge before it collapsed a year ago and is recommending that 30...