Dozens of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) workers have accepted deferred resignation offers, according to a new report.

Earlier this year, U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) workers received deferred resignation program (DRP) offers from the federal government, which would allow them to continue to receive salary and benefits through September 30, 2025, if they agree to resign.

According to a recent report from Politico, a total of 169 FMCSA employees have accepted the DRP offer as of early July 2025. This accounts for 13.7% of the agency’s workforce.

For USDOT as a whole, 4,127 of the agency’s 56,989 workers accepted DRP offers, according to the report.

The staff reductions come as USDOT and FMCSA have embarked on an ambitious project to support the U.S. trucking industry through a series of policy changes and modernization efforts. Among the initiatives recently promised include a spilt sleeper berth pilot study, investments in increasing truck parking availability, and updates to the DataQs System and the National Consumer Complaint Database.

The DRP offers are part of a larger effort by the Trump Administration to significantly reduce the federal workforce as a whole. In all, around two million federal workers were sent DRP offers through a “Fork in the Road” email sent from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).