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WASHINGTON — After decades of inaction, federal transportation officials have moved ahead with requiring new technologies to reduce crashes and fatalities involving large trucks. But the incoming administration could install a red light to block their efforts. At issue are proposed new rules by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require large trucks to be equipped with automatic emergency braking systems and devices to limit their speeds. But advocates fear that such long-awaited progress to improve safety could end when Donald Trump replaces Joe Biden in the White House next month. Not only did Trump promise to reduce regulation but incoming Vice President JD Vance, while in the U.S. Senate, co-sponsored legislation to block the proposal requiring truckers to use speed limiters. "We are very nervous that safety-oriented rulemakings will be watered down or pulled altogether," said Zach Cahalan, executive director of the Truck Safety Coalition. After all, seven months after Trump took office the first time, his Transportation Department dropped efforts to require trucking companies and railroads to test employees for sleep apnea if symptoms were observed, even as the National Transportation Safety Board named reducing driver fatigue as one of its most-wanted safety improvements. "We want to hope for the best but based on the last time the Trump administration was in the White House, they did not advance safety regulations," said Harry Adler, principal at the Institute for Safer Trucking. The trucking industry gave 86% of its $13 million in campaign contributions to Republicans, including $1.2 million to Trump's campaign, according to the research group OpenSecrets. The 150,000-member strong Owner-Operators Independent Drivers Association already has let the new administration know of its opposition to speed limiters. "We look forward to working with the Trump administration and congressional allies to advance a pro-trucker agenda, which includes expanding truck parking, stopping unworkable environmental mandates and preventing a dangerous speed limiter mandate," OOIDA President Todd Spencer said. Cahalan said he "would not be surprised if the incoming administration chose to pull" the proposed rule on speed limiters, saying he expected it to be "on the chopping block." President Joe Biden and Congress pivoted to traffic safety after the pandemic led to a spike in highway deaths as motorists sped along near-empty roads. Fatalities in truck crashes nationally grew by 48% from 2013 to 2022, from 3,981 to 5,936. Pennsylvania reported a 19% increase during the same period, from 155 to 185. The 185 fatalities in the Keystone State in 2022 were the eighth highest in the nation, according to the Truck Safety Coalition. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in January 2022 used some of the money in the bipartisan infrastructure law for a new National Roadway Safety Strategy that called for using new technology, adjusting speed limits, changing road design and signage, and improving responses from medical personnel to stem the increase in traffic-related deaths. Safety rules In the law, Congress demanded certain new safety rules, including automatic emergency braking on trucks heavier than 10,000 pounds. The final braking rule is scheduled to be released in January, the same month Trump takes office. Trump could let the rule take effect or possibly propose weaker regulations. Meanwhile, NHTSA estimated that the proposed braking rule would prevent more than 19,000 crashes, save 155 lives, and prevent 8,814 injuries every year. A formal process to develop a rule on speed limiters is scheduled to begin in May. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said that in truck crashes on roads where the speed limit was identified, almost 40% of deaths in 2019, about 1,500 fatalities, occurred when the posted speed limit was 65 mph or higher. Adler said he hoped the rise in fatalities might be enough for the Trump administration to let the proposed rules take effect. "At a time when truck crash deaths are at some of their highest levels ever, we hope the data will encourage the administration to move ahead," he said. Long time coming Both rules have been decades in the making. The National Transportation Safety Board first recommended automatic emergency braking and speed limiters in 1995. The Transportation Department first said in 2011 that it would look at speed limiters, and proposed a rule requiring them in 2016. Automatic emergency braking joined the agenda in 2015. Safety advocates acknowledge that there could be some delays as the new administration puts its people in place, but said they would not let up on their efforts to see the new safety standards enacted. "A truck crash doesn't count what political affiliation you are," said Peter Kurdock, general counsel for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of consumer, health, law enforcement and insurance industry groups. "There's really a very strong compelling case, whatever your view on regulations, this is a rulemaking that can save a lot of lives and makes a lot of sense." (c)2024 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Visit the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at www.post-gazette.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Tesco and Aldi issue 'do not eat' warning on festive food items as they could be unsafe

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James says he’s taking a break from social media. The NBA’s all-time leading scorer and Los Angeles Lakers star posted on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, and Instagram on Wednesday to announce that he’s stepping away from his pages. James has 159 million followers on Instagram, 52.9 million on X. James started the farewell by reposting something that Rich Kleiman, Kevin Durant’s longtime manager, posted to X on Oct. 24. “We can all acknowledge that sports is the last part of society that universally brings people together. So why can’t the coverage do the same?” Kleiman wrote that day. “It’s only click bait when you say it. When the platform is so big, you can make the change and allow us all an escape from real life negativity. I for one find it all a waste of breath.” James, on Instagram, posted a screengrab of Kleiman’s post and added the caption, “Damn shame what it’s come to.” On X, his repost of Kleiman simply said, “AMEN!!” Kleiman has posted only a handful of times since his Oct. 24 post, and evidently, James isn’t planning to post much — or anything — until further notice. Related Articles Entertainment | Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at art auction Entertainment | Pamela Hayden, longtime ‘Simpsons’ voice actor, including Bart’s friend Milhouse, hangs up her mic Entertainment | Simone Biles to join Snoop Dogg as a guest mentor for an episode on NBC’s ‘The Voice’ Entertainment | Alec Baldwin wasn’t invited to ‘Rust’ premiere, incites anger of slain cinematographer’s family Entertainment | 'Euphoria' star Storm Reid not returning for season 3 His announcement came one day after he said “everybody on the Internet called me a liar all the time” when he said he was watching Dalton Knecht’s college games last year at Tennessee — long before the Lakers drafted the sharpshooting guard. “And with that said I’ll holla at y’all! Getting off social media for the time being. Y’all take care,” James posted, followed by emojis of a hand holding up two fingers — often symbolizing someone leaving a place — and a crown, a nod to his “King James” moniker. James, the NBA’s oldest active player — he turns 40 next month — is a four-time NBA champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist, the most recent of those coming earlier this year at the Paris Games. The Lakers are 10-4, winners of six straight and next play Thursday at home against Orlando.A child beauty queen's death, a botched investigation and decades of mystery: What we know about JonBenet Ramsey's killing

Apiaries abuzz over ruling against widening cross-border trade in live honeybeesThe ongoing fight between some faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and the administration at the premier engineering school, mainly the director Virendra Kumar Tewari, may end up before the courts, with the faculty threatening to approach the Calcutta High Court. Some of the professors have also threatened to launch a hunger strike. “We have already sent a letter to the chairman of the board of governors for his intervention. Sit-in demonstration has started since Wednesday. If our demands our not met we would go for a hunger strike. We are also planning to move court early next week,” said one of the professors who received a show-cause notice, asking not to be identified. While the immediate provocation for both the hunger-strike and the plan to move the high court, is a show-cause notice issued by the institution’s registrar last week to 86 faculty members, the controversy has been brewing since September. That was when the Indian Institute of Technology Teachers’ Association (IITTA) sent a letter to the Union human resource development minister accusing the institute’s director of nepotism, arbitrary recruitment of faculty, failure to start a multi super-speciality hospital, unlawful recovery of excess payment from faculties and vitiating the harmony between the IIT campus and the neighbouring community. Tewari, the director of the institute took charge in December 2019 for a period of five years. His tenure ends in January 2025. “The letter sent to the Union minister on September 20 stated that several letters sent to the director, board of governors and the chairman over the issues in the past went unanswered. The ministry was requested to appoint a new director of high academic repute and experienced in practising inclusive governance,” said a second professor and a member of the IITTA, who too didn’t wish to be named. In response, the IIT administration issued show-cause notices to the office bearers of the IITTA, including the body’s president, general secretary, vice president and treasurer on November 12. A separate show-cause notice was issued to Amal Kumar Das, a professor and general secretary of IITTA. “The institute is deeply concerned by the contents of your letter and accordingly you are required to provide a detailed written explanation with evidence,” the letter stated, giving the respondents a week’s time to provide satisfactory explanation. On November 28, 86 faculty members, under the umbrella of IITTA petitioned the institute, threatening to go on a hunger strike if the show cause notices to the four IITTA office-bearers were not rolled recalled. But the institute doubled down and issued show cause notices to these 86 too. “We, the faculty members of IIT Kharagpur demand that the two show cause notices, against the office bearers and Das, be withdrawn immediately and disciplinary proceedings are also stopped,” the petition said. In response, on November 29, the administration issued show-cause notices to all the 86 faculty members. The show-cause letter cited the Conduct Rules of the Institute, statute 15 (17) Schedule B, point 16 (b) which states: “No employee shall be signatory to any joint representation addressed to the authorities for redress of any grievances or of any further matter.” The director also replaced three heads of departments – Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics and Bioscience and Biotechnology, earlier this week. They had all signed the petition. HT got in touch with the IIT Kharagpur director’s office and sent an email seeking his response on the developments. There was no response till the time of going to print. On Wednesday, at least 100 professors staged a sit-in before the institution’s administrative building, holding placards and wearing black badges.

It’s a fashion brand antisemites will love to hate. An adjunct professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology who was suspended after getting arrested while counter-protesting an anti-Israel rally is launching a new fashion line he hopes will “piss off the Jew haters.” Mark Greiz’s Generation Diaspora is touted as a collection of proudly Zionist clothing and accessories launches, offering such items as women’s $20 underwear that boldly proclaim “Kiss My Ham-ass” and $28 T-shirts that read “F*ck Hamas.” Another tee reads, “Trigger Warning: This brand contains content that may offend neo-Nazis, Jew-haters, Hamas lovers, self-haters, anti-Zionists and radical leftists.” Other more poignant pieces include totes that say “Never Forget, Never Forgive,” referring to the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israel. For Greiz, a 56-year-old descendant of Holocaust survivors, the line, which launches on Dec. 10, is more than just selling merchandise. “The goal for me is not really to change the hearts and minds of people that hate Jews and Israel, but to community among Jews, especially young Jews,” he told The Post. “I want to collaborate in the future, with other pro-Israel artists, musicians and poets,” he added. Items from three different collections will be printed on demand and range in price from $20 to $50.

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