The investigation was prompted by a series of deadly bus crashes last spring, including the crash of

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After a yearlong investigation into the curbside bus industry, transportation hotels new orleans regulators have shut down 26 bus operators running routes along I-95 from New York to Florida, declaring hotels new orleans them imminent hazards to public safety.
hotels new orleans The U.S. Department hotels new orleans of Transportation s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced today that it has shut down a network of 26 bus operators headed by three major companies in the largest single safety crackdown in the agency s history.
Curbside buses, popular because of their cheap fares, pick up and drop off passengers hotels new orleans at curbside locations such as parking lots and retail stores instead of bus terminals. New York is a popular destination for these operations.
hotels new orleans The egregious acts of these carriers put the unsuspecting public hotels new orleans at risk, and they must be removed from our highways immediately, said FMCSA Administrator Anne S. Ferro. With the help of multiple state law enforcement partners, we are putting every unsafe bus and truck company on notice to follow the safety laws or be shut down.
Those receiving shutdown orders include one ticket seller, nine active bus companies and three bus companies attempting to apply for operating authority. Perhaps most shocking is that thirteen of the bus companies shut down today had already received out of service orders by regulators, but had continued to operate.
Part of the problem with some curbside bus operations is that without a fixed terminal, the FMCSA has had a hard time keeping up with regulating the companies and conducting inspections. With a ratio of just 1.15 FMCSA investigators hotels new orleans per 1000 motor coach carriers across the country, it has been especially difficult hotels new orleans for the agency to keep up with reincarnated carriers, those curbside bus companies shut down for safety hotels new orleans violations that often reopen under a different name, place ownership in a relatives name or move to a different state.
The FMCSA has established a new rule that expands the agency hotels new orleans s authority to take action against bus operators with safety violations that attempt to evade enforcement by reincarnating themselves. Under the new rule, the FMCSA has revoked these carriers hotels new orleans operating authority and linked the active companies to other companies previously placed out of service.
Investigators found all the bus carriers had multiple safety violations, including a continuous hotels new orleans pattern of employing drivers without valid commercial driver s licenses (CDLs) and failure to have alcohol and drug testing programs. Bus drivers had serious hours-of-service and qualification violations. The bus companies also failed to perform regular inspections and repairs on buses.
The investigation was prompted by a series of deadly bus crashes last spring, including the crash of a curbside bus on a Bronx highway hotels new orleans in March 2011 killed fourteen hotels new orleans passengers, injuring the driver and nineteen passengers.
A November 2011 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report hotels new orleans entitled Executive Report hotels new orleans on Curbside Motorcoach Safety found curbside carriers hotels new orleans have higher fatal accident hotels new orleans and death rates and higher out-of-service (OOS) rates resulting from driver violations compared with scheduled conventional carriers.
These aggressive enforcement actions against unsafe bus companies send a clear signal: If you put passengers safety at risk, we will shut you down, U.S. Transportation hotels new orleans Secretary Ray LaHood said. Safety hotels new orleans is and will always be our highest priority.
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