Clapp Confirmation Was Delayed

UPDATE: Clapp Confirmed - Click here for the story.

Federal Highway Administration spokesman David Longo said the confirmation of Joseph Clapp to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has been delayed, according to a report in Land Line Magazine. [However, late Wednesday, events suddenly shifted and the Senate confirmed Clapp.]

Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways had undertaken an effort to block the nomination of Joseph Clapp as administrator of the FMCSA.

CRASH, a highway safety group originally organized in the 1990s as an ally of the railroad industry, now claims a broad agenda of highway safety issues.

CRASH’s Web site asked its members to write their senators asking them to question Clapp’s fitness to run a truck safety organization after his years as an executive at Roadway Express.

Clapp’s nomination passed through the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last Thursday. It still needed the approval of the full Senate for him to become the first full-time administrator in the history of the FMSCA, and the nomination was placed on the Senate calendar.

Calling attention to CRASH’s attempt to block Clapp, American Trucking Associations Interim President and Chief Executive Officer William Canary sent a letter to ATA members calling on them to contact their senators and urge quick confirmation.

Apparently, while everyone else in America is standing together and moving forward to assure a stronger, safer transportation system, CRASH has chosen not to unite and work together with the rest of America,” Canary said.

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