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FMCSA Deputy Administrator Cathy Gautreaux tells TRB audience in Washington DC that the agency will keep seeking to reduce regulations without negatively impacting safety. Photo: David Cullen
">WASHINGTON, DC -- At the start of her first full year helping to lead the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Deputy Administrator Cathy Gautreaux praised the agency for its recent accomplishments and laid out its priorities going forward.
“These are exciting and important times for our Agency. I am honored to have been selected to provide leadership, and look forward to helping to advance FMCSA's priorities and goals,” Gautreaux said Jan. 9 at the top of her keynoter at the MCSA Analysis, Research, and Technology Forum held here at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
Looking back at last year, Gautreaux, who took over as the agency's number-two official in November, said it was “a good year for us, thanks to the efforts of the 1,100 men and women of FMCSA and our partners. We couldn't do our work without you.”
She said a notable success is the rise seen in the use of safety belts by truck and bus drivers, which increased to 86% in 2016-- up from 65% back in 2007.” Gautreaux also pointed to the agency's efforts in 2017 to improve crash data collection, which she said are “chief among FMCSA's research activities and priorities this year.
Turning to the various Congressional mandates imposed on the agency by the FAST Act highway bill (which was signed into law in December 2015), she reported that the agency
completed several FAST Act-required projects in 2017, including the Post-Accident Report Review and the Correlation Study, and noted that “recommendations have been published and the agency is currently working to implement improvements.”
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