UPS ordered to let deaf apply to drive trucks
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United Parcel Service must give deaf employees a chance to drive its smaller delivery trucks if they can show they can drive as safely as employees with normal hearing, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday.
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A plan to allow Mexican trucking companies deeper into the United States drew an angry reaction from labor leaders, safety advocates and members of Congress.
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They say the clean vehicles' silent nature poses real threats to pedestrians, blind and otherwise, and call for laws to encourage--or, better yet, require--minimum noise output.
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Government tries to limit TV advertising and sales along highways
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OAKLAND, California  - California on Friday banned   motorists from talking on cell phones unless they use a headset   or speakerphone, although the law will not take effect until   July 1, 2008, to allow time to educate the public.
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In a Sept. 9 story about Mexican trucks entering the United States under a NAFTA-mandated pilot program, The Associated Press, relying on a statement from Mexican Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez at a news conference Sunday, erroneously reported that two Mexican tractor-trailers delivered cargo to New York and South Carolina. Instead, it was one truck which unloaded steel in North Carolina on Monday.
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SACRAMENTO -- The first duty of the California Highway Patrol&#39;s next commissioner will be to control widespread abuse of disability retirements and workers&#39; compensation by high-ranking officers, the governor&#39;s office and key lawmakers said in the
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The Bloomington Police Department is beefing up its corps of civilian volunteers who enforce handicapped-parking regulations - something we advocated on this Opinion page a year ago.  We are glad to see Bloomington taking this action and hope many people sign on to help.
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Wanted: assistant for genius. Must have working knowledge of voice synthesisers and own driving licence.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - A U.S. Senate decision to block funding for a test program to let Mexico's long-haul trucks operate in the United States uses outdated safety fears to mask protectionism, Mexican truckers and the U.S. government say.
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Flight attendants at UAL  Corp.UALAQ.OB, parent of bankrupt United Airlines, authorized  their union to call for strike activities if the carrier  terminates their collective bargaining agreements, the union  said on Thursday.
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Who do FedEx Ground drivers work for, anyways?
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ALBANY, Feb. 27  â Five former managers from a pallet and crate maker pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the companyâs hiring of illegal immigrants, 10 months after raids in 26 states signaled a federal crackdown on employers that break the law to get cheap labor.
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By James Mayse, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 16--When Bill Froehlich worked for the state Transportation Cabinet, his boss often called out work crews to clean up trash he'd spotted along the highways.
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The increasingly shrill battle for the US presidency has even led to a fight to win the attention of deaf Americans.
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By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 9--Geerat Vermeij pulls one shell, then another, from a nest of plastic boxes, rarely pausing to check the Braille labels curled beside them. His long fingers dart into each shell's opening.
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GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN Yawn. That sums up the reaction here to news that the U.S. Congress, acting through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is recommending that all new cars and trucks sold in America be fitted with electronic stability-control systems.