Clapp Takes Aim at Fatalities

The new head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Joseph M. Clapp, will seek the cooperation of trucking companies in the effort to reduce truck-related fatalities 50% by 2008.

But the nation’s chief truck safety enforcement officer conceded in an interview that it will take a “breakthrough” to meet the Department of Transportation’s goal of halving truck-related fatalities from the 5,374 in 1998, when the goal was established.

“There is no question but that that is an enormously challenging goal, but wouldn’t we like to see that accomplished?” Clapp said.

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