WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Transportation on Wednesday proposed a two-year phaseout of older railroad tank cars used to transport crude oil, which have been involved in several serious ...

A group representing tanker carriers in the trucking industry is petitioning a DOT-sub-agency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), for a determination as to whether ...

The proposal, which dates back to 2011, would have limited the amount of flammable liquid that could be carried in the unprotected loading/unloading wetlines of tankers.

After the I-Team found potentially deadly flaws in chemical tankers, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is pressing regulators to fix the problem on Wednesday evening.