Joshi leaving FMCSA, heading back to New York

From Freight Waves.

Meera Joshi is not going to be the permanent head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

The acting administrator is going back to the municipal government of New York City. Mayor-elect Eric Adams on Monday announced the appointment of five deputy mayors, all of them females. Joshi is one of the five.

Joshi is currently deputy administrator at FMCSA. In October, the Senate’s Commerce Committee had voted to advance her nomination to become the administrator of FMCSA.

A statement issued by the Department of Transportation said Joshi will remain in her current role for the next month.

Joshi had joined FMCSA after she was nominated to head the trucking regulator by President Biden in April.

Her earlier role in the New York City administration was with the Taxi & Limousine Commission. She was in that commissioner’s job when she was nominated by Biden to become the head of FMCSA.

There has not been a Senate-approved head of FMCSA since Raymond Martinez resigned in October 2019. He had only had the job for a little more than a year. Since then, a series of interim administrators or deputy administrators, like Joshi, have headed the agency.

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