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New York routinely issues licenses to immigrants that may be valid long after they are legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Dec. 12.

Senators are pushing for changes to the NDAA after crash investigators warned the legislation would undo key safety reforms stemming from a collision between an airliner and Army helicopter.

The administration’s latest move to flag nearly half of the driving schools as noncompliant doesn’t figure to disrupt the industry, experts say. But the scrutiny on immigrant drivers might.

The Transportation Department said Dec. 1 that it plans to revoke the certification of nearly 3,000 truck driving schools unless they can comply with training requirements in the next 30 days.

The court said the federal government didn't follow proper procedure in drafting the rule and failed to “articulate a satisfactory explanation for how the rule would promote safety.”

Roughly 99% of both railroads’ shareholders voted to support the largest rail merger in history, but the U.S. Surface Transportation Board must still OK it before the deal can be completed.

Though airlines say they expect normal operations to resume within three or four days after the order is lifted, some have suggested that problems might linger longer than that.

California will revoke 17,000 commercial driver licenses issued to immigrants after finding expiration dates exceeded legal status limits, following federal scrutiny.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted Nov. 4 that there could be chaos in the skies next week if the government shutdown drags on and air traffic controllers miss a second paycheck.

Union Pacific wants to buy Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal that would create the first transcontinental railroad.  That deal faces a lengthy review by the Surface Transportation Board.