High Priority CMV grants: $80.7 million for inspections, parking awareness, crash corridors — still not your FSC

What the notice actually said

The grant award PDF is not a fuel surcharge. FMCSA awarded $80,714,223 in High Priority grants to strengthen CMV safety under MCSAP — technology, parking-availability awareness, high-risk corridors, public education.

Individuals and for-profit businesses cannot apply. States, locals, tribes, nonprofits, and universities are the class. If a broker forwards this as “DOT is paying carriers,” hang up.

Applications go through FMCSA’s grant review, not a load board. A corridor-enforcement project in another state does not move a Joliet window or cut a Chicago rate.

BIL-era HP money also nods at veteran CDL training, CDL processing, Women of Trucking, detention studies, and the leasing task force. Those are federal workstreams, not a recruiting coupon.

This is the earlier $80.7 million award announcement. FY25 is a later cycle with its own notices. Do not mash the two into one “DOT grant” story on a tender.

What it changes on Monday

We still answer the phone. We do not invoice a “grant offset,” and we do not treat $80,714,223 as a reason to discount a live-load.

Parking-awareness tech, if a state won it, is a public-sector project. It is not Motive and it is not our dispatch app.

Have freight? Get a Quote. Have a broker packet question? For Brokers. Appointments when the window is the real problem: deferred loading.

FY25 application-cycle companion: the later NOFO. 2023 parking-slice companion: the $80 million parking round.

What we will — and will not — do

We will not apply as a for-profit carrier for pots the release says we cannot touch. We will not sell a “grant-backed” rate.

We will not confuse this $80,714,223 award with the FY25 cycle or the later Pro-Trucker parking dollars. Three files, three dates.

Phone +1 (847) 702-8181 if you have freight. If you have a grant application, you are calling the wrong desk.