This award to the county of nassau aims to reduce the average number of large truck and bus accidents conduct enforcement to enhance CMV work zone safety improve the identification of operators with…

This $2 million project grant from the Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration aims to enhance commercial motor vehicle safety in Nassau County, New York through September 2024. Funded through the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance High Priority Activities Grants and Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 20.237), the County will conduct enforcement activities to reduce accidents involving large trucks and buses, improve identification of commercial drivers with drug and alcohol violations, decrease annual pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities, and enhance work zone safety for commercial motor vehicles. Key planned activities include targeted inspections and enforcement stops informed by historical data and recent trends, with supervisors tasked with reviewing such information to identify optimal locations for deployment. As sub-awardee, the Nassau County Police Department will support delivery of these commercial motor vehicle safety initiatives using the $2M in federal grant funding awarded in July 2022.

This award to the county of nassau aims to reduce the average number of large truck and bus accidents conduct enforcement to enhance CMV work zone safety improve the identification of operators with drug and alcohol violations that prohibit them from lawfully driving a commercial motor vehicle reduce the average number of annual pedestrian, bicyclist, and motorcyclist deaths the first step in increasing the number of inspections and enforcement stops conducted will be to plan the dates, times, and locations where these inspections will be most effective supervisors will be tasked with reviewing a multitude of data, including historical data and statistics, as well as recent trends, to identify the best locations to deploy targeted enforcement