We are recommending that the Department of Transportation maintain the placard system as it is now.” With these words, spoken at the Congressional Fire Services Institute dinner on April 7 in ...

TROY — Unbeknown to operators of trains, tractor-trailers and tanker trucks, teams of volunteers spent two months this spring recording information from hazardous material placards as their ...

FIRE DRILL: The Asheville Fire Department, firefighters from Buncombe County fire departments and several local municipalities and staff from the N.C. Department of Transportation and Norfolk ...

Many fire chiefs in the United States consider hazardous materials placards to be critical to their emergency response, according to a survey conducted by the International Association of Fire Chiefs.

It's a way to keep track of hazardous materials on the roadways. "Any vehicle that goes through with a placard on it, we're logging that placard,” said EMA Director Dave Ivan.

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY — A trucker pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges Monday after he was caught attempting to drive hazardous materials through the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels ...

This proposal could require the Secretary of State to include education on hazardous material placards in the Illinois Rules of the Road book students read during driver education courses.

CHICAGO (CBS) --Interstate 65 was closed in both directions Wednesday afternoon near Crown Point, Indiana, after a tanker truck rolled over in a crash, prompting a hazardous materials response.

It will cost taxpayers $350,000 to get a commodity flow study done to measure the impact of hazardous material cargo traveling up and down Interstate 35 through the capital city.