Among the changes announced Monday are new rules requiring real-time, recurring criminal background checks for aviation workers, including airline employees.

Background checks of port workers conducted by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) aren’t as reliable or effective as they could be, according to a new report from the Department of ...

Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) long ago proposed the FAST (Free and Secure Trade) driver card as a means to allow foreign driver compliance with the background check requirement for HAZMAT drivers. ...

In the latest case, Roth said, his investigators had found the names of 73 airport workers “with possible terrorism-related information” in a classified federal database that the TSA could not ...

During phase one, TSA ran name-based security checks on all 2.7 million Hazmat drivers to determine if any presented a potential terrorist threat. Phase two augments this effort by adding an FBI ...

TSA estimates there are about 2.7 million truckers licensed to carry hazardous materials. The new rule is the third and final phase of the agency's Hazmat Threat Assessment Program.

The Transportation Security Administration has announced the completion of more than one million fingerprint-based background checks on truck drivers required to carry a Hazardous Material ...

“Generally, having a competitive option out there is a good thing,” said Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which oversees TSA.

TSA had thought it would take 30 minutes for states to complete an FBI fingerprints card and forward it to the FBI at a total cost of $452 million over the next 10 years.