The purpose of this award to the state of alaska, DOT is to 1 conduct deployments for commercial motor vehicle CMV safety inspections and driver contacts in rural areas to maintain road safety and…

The Department of Transportation Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration awarded a $207,843 Project Grant to the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities to conduct commercial motor vehicle safety inspections and driver contacts in rural areas of Alaska from July 1, 2022 through September 30, 2024. The grant funding will support strategic deployments to inspect commercial vehicles and contact drivers in areas without fixed weigh stations, with the goal of maintaining road safety and ensuring compliance. Additionally, the award will enable outreach to local law enforcement providing information on commercial motor vehicle compliance and human trafficking prevention, to further partnerships between state and local agencies in regions with limited daily commercial motor vehicle presence. The funding assists activities under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance High Priority Activities Grants and Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 20.237), which supports partnerships to carry out high priority commercial motor vehicle safety initiatives.

The purpose of this award to the state of alaska, DOT is to 1 conduct deployments for commercial motor vehicle CMV safety inspections and driver contacts in rural areas to maintain road safety and ensure safety compliance for vehicles that do not regularly pass a fixed weigh station this will be done by conducting strategically located deployments and targeting previously unseen cmvs and their drivers 2 provide local law enforcement agencies information related to CMV compliance and human trafficking prevention this will be done by conducting outreaches to those agencies in areas with little day to day presence of cmvs providing outreach and education to those agencies will further build partnerships and communications links between state and local agencies