The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) awarded a $2,000,302 Commercial Driver's License Program Implementation Grant (CFDA 20.232) to the Georgia Department of Driver Services on September 1, 2023. The purpose of this 4-year award is to support the state's efforts to reduce commercial driver's license (CDL) skills testing delays and wait times, enhance fraud prevention through data analysis, and expand the department's human trafficking awareness and prevention program. Key...
This $3,059,617 federal Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2023 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to the Georgia Department of Driver Services under the Commercial Driver's License Program Implementation Grant (CFDA 20.232). The grant funds will support the department's efforts to improve data quality and timeliness on commercial driver's license (CDL) convictions, increase CDL training quality and capacity statewide, enhance driver record accuracy, and assist...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) awarded a $9,850,254 Formula Grant under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (CFDA 20.218) to the Georgia Department of Public Safety (GDPS). The grant funding supports GDPS's efforts to improve commercial motor vehicle (CMV), driver, and motor carrier safety in Georgia through various activities, including driver and vehicle inspections, traffic enforcement, carrier investigations, new entrant safety audits, and safety data...
The Georgia Department of Public Safety received a $727,766 project grant award from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance High Priority Activities Grants and Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 20.237). The grant will support the department's delivery of high priority commercial motor vehicle safety programs and activities in Georgia from August 1, 2021 through September 30, 2023. Specifically, grant funds will be used to enrich and augment...
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) awarded a $2,343,967 Project Grant to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (MDPS) under the Commercial Driver's License Program Implementation Grant (CFDA 20.232). The grant aims to strengthen the state's commercial driver's license (CDL) help desk data processing, improve the timeliness and completeness of CDL driver history records, hire a court coordinator to enhance transaction timeliness and...
The Georgia Department of Public Safety received a $754,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance High Priority Activities Grants and Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 20.237). The purpose of the project is to identify driver behavior and improve regulatory compliance by deploying camera enforcement technology at problematic locations, including work zones, high-crash...
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) awarded a $130,240 Project Grant on August 26, 2024 under the Commercial Motor Vehicle Operator Safety Training (CMVOST) Grants program (CFDA 20.235). The purpose of this grant is to recruit and enroll qualified students and members of underserved communities in the Commercial Driver's License (CDL) program at Central Georgia Technical College. The project aims to expand the number of CDL holders with...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has awarded a $2,565,805 Project Grant to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety, Office of Motor Vehicles under the Commercial Driver's License Program Implementation (CDLPI) Grant program (CFDA 20.232). The purpose of this 4-year award, with a start date of September 1, 2024 and end date of September 30, 2028, is to improve Commercial Driver's License Information System (CDLIS) data quality by increasing the timeliness of electronic...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) awarded the Georgia Department of Public Safety (GDPS) a $33,495,528 Formula Grant under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP, CFDA 20.218) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The MCSAP grant aims to reduce crashes and hazardous materials incidents involving commercial motor vehicles through state-level enforcement of federal motor carrier safety regulations. GDPS will use the funding to support...
This $708,269 federal Project Grant award from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) under the Commercial Driver's License Program Implementation Grant (CFDA 20.232) will fund the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) to host the Fiscal Year 2024 CDL Coordinator and Information Technology Meeting for state driver's licensing agencies (SDLAs). The goal is to provide a forum to facilitate dialogue between the jurisdictions and FMCSA. This 4-year cooperative...