The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will meet with the CEOs of General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. on Thursday during a trip to the Detroit area to discuss recalls.NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind also will meet with senior Fiat Chrysler executives in Auburn Hills, but CEO Sergio Marchionne is in Europe and is not available.
Rosekind said this is his first trip to Detroit to establish connections and see safety advances. He vows more trips.
“One of the things I’ve emphasized ... is that I want to have direct communication. If there are issues, I want to be able to call them or they can call me — that just doing this through headlines for example or reading a press release is not the way for us to talk about a recall issue or a defect,” Rosekind said in a Detroit News interview.
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