Trucking company involved in explosion ordered off the road

WASHINGTON (AP) – Safety officials are ordering a trucking company that was recently involved in an explosion while hauling automobile air bag inflators to take its vehicles off the road after finding a long list of serious safety violations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says Industrial Transit Inc. of LaGrange, Georgia, must immediately halt all operations because the company poses “an imminent hazard to public safety.”

One of the company’s trucks was hauling Takata inflators in August when it crashed, caught fire, exploded and destroyed a house near the small Texas border town of Quemado. A woman was killed and four others injured.

The agency says the small trucking company was using drivers without commercial licenses, and not performing required drug and alcohol tests, among other violations.

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