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January 8, 2001 9:15 AM, EST

Clyde J. Hart Jr. said he would consider joining the Bush administration as the permanent head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration if asked.

	FMCSA
	Clyde J. Hart Jr.

Hart, who stepped away from the Federal Maritime Administration last spring to run FMCSA as its interim chief, made the comment after presiding over a Jan. 2 reception at the Department of Transportation building celebrating the trucking safety agency’s first anniversary. FMCSA — successor to the Office of Motor Carriers — was launched Jan. 1, 2000.

Hart, a Democrat who said he was pleased by President-elect Bush’s selection of Norman Y. Mineta to be the next secretary of transportation, told Transport Topics after the ceremony that he would “consider it very seriously” if the new administration offered him an appointment. But he said he has no indication of whom the Bush transition team may be eyeing for FMCSA’s top job.

Mineta, the incoming secretary, is also a Democrat.

For the full story, see the Jan. 8 print edition of Transport Topics. .