Nysp has set a goal to inspect a minimum of 4,512 commercial motor vehicle inspections over the course of this grant project

This federal Project Grant award of $1,997,450.00 from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) under the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance High Priority Activities Grants and Cooperative Agreements program (CFDA 20.237) will support a comprehensive commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety initiative in New York State.

The grant funding will enable the New York State Police (NYSP) to conduct a minimum of 4,512 CMV inspections and 2,000 CMV driver inspections over the project period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. Additionally, NYSP personnel will monitor and stop unsafe passenger vehicle drivers operating in the vicinity of CMVs. This targeted enforcement in high-crash corridors in Broome and Steuben counties aims to improve compliance with safety regulations and ultimately reduce crash rates along these routes. The grant will fund seven enforcement periods scheduled evenly over the two-year project period.

In addition, troopers assigned to roving traffic enforcement will stop unsafe passenger vehicle drivers operating in the vicinity of cmvs, when observed.nysp has set a goal to inspect a minimum of 2,000 commercial vehicle drivers by the end of this project with an accomplishment of 500 inspections per quarter.nysps goal is to inspect a minimum of 2,000 commercial motor vehicles in the above identified corridors and also stop unsafe passenger vehicle drivers in the vicinity of cmvs. After completing safety inspections, nysp personnel will only allow the drivers and vehicles that are following the safety regulations to continue to their destination, which should in turn have a positive effect on reducing the crash rate along these routes. The southern NY project will be conducted within the boundaries of troops C and E which covers broome and steuben counties and are the two counties NYSDOT clear identified as having the most CMV crashes between 2020 and 2023. The grant will support seven southern NY enforcement periods, which will be evenly scheduled between october 1, 2024, and september 30, 2025.