Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act
Official title: To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a competitive grant program for projects for commercial motor vehicle parking, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act
This bill directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to provide competitive grants for projects that provide public parking for commercial motor vehicles and improve the safety of commercial motor vehicle drivers. States, metropolitan planning organizations, tribal governments, and local governments are eligible for these grants.
The grants must be used for projects on federal-aid highways or a facility with reasonable access to such a highway or a freight facility.
A grant recipient may not charge a fee to a commercial motor vehicle driver to access a public parking facility that is constructed, opened, maintained, or improved with a grant under this program.
In providing grants, DOT must determine that
- there is a shortage of commercial motor vehicle parking capacity in the project's corridor;
- the eligible entity has consulted motor carriers, commercial motor vehicle drivers, public safety officials, and private providers of commercial motor vehicle parking regarding the project;
- the project will likely increase the availability or utilization of commercial motor vehicle parking, facilitate the efficient movement of freight, or improve highway safety, traffic congestion, and air quality; and
- the eligible entity has demonstrated the ability to provide for the facility's maintenance and operation.
To the maximum extent practicable, DOT must select grant projects that maximize the geographic dispersion of new commercial motor vehicle parking capacity across the United States.
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- OWNER-OPERATOR INDEPENDENT DRIVERS ASSOCIATION
- INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS
- AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL
- FEDEX CORPORATION
- AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS
- ATLAS CROSSING LLC
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- Transportation, Dept of (DOT)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- White House Office
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1659: Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1659/
"H.R. 1659: Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1659/.
H.R. 1659, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-1659/.
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