federal grants

FMCSA makes up to $90M available in FY2025 grants

WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has opened fiscal year 2025 applications for three discretionary grant programs that emphasize driver safety training, truck parking and trucking applications that employ real-time data.

“These grants, which could total more than $90 million, will fund projects that advance the development and delivery of motor carrier safety training to non-Federal employees and provide commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operator training to future...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-makes-up-to-90m-available-in-fy2025-grants

Port of New Orleans nets $73M federal grant for container terminal

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The Port of New Orleans has been awarded a $73.77 million federal grant to advance the first...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-of-new-orleans-nets-73m-federal-grant-for-container-terminal

Truck parking in Texas, Louisiana gets $33.5M boost from DOT

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a combined $33.5 million to build new truck parking facilities in Texas and Louisiana as project sponsors find ways around a lack of dedicated funding pools for such projects.

A truck travel plaza in Caldwell County, Texas, was awarded $23 million from DOT’s Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program, a competitive grant program used to fund freight and passenger transportation projects.

Another truck parking...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-parking-in-texas-louisiana-gets-335m-boost-from-dot

South Dakota short line among winners of RAISE grants

A photograph of a freight train at a rail crossing.

The Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad (RCP&E), a Genesee & Wyoming short line in Rapid City, South Dakota, is involved in a project that has just received a $22 million federal grant.

The South Dakota freight capacity expansion project will upgrade 163 miles of the RCP&E main line between Fort Pierre and Rapid City in order to improve freight flows between western South Dakota and Wyoming. The project received the $22 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Rebuilding American...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/south-dakota-short-line-among-winners-of-raise-grants

Federal money earmarked for truck safety in FY21 tops $380M

U.S. regulators announced on Wednesday $76. 2 million in grants aimed at preventing truck crashes, bringing safety funding allocated in FY21 to more than $380 million.

The most recent grants, awarded by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to state agencies and educational facilities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories, includes $45.2 million in competitive high-priority (HP) grants to advance technological capability and promote intelligent transportation...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/federal-money-earmarked-for-truck-safety-in-fy21-tops-380m