FMCSA to Hold MAP-21 'Listening Session' on Knowledge Testing

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will host a Jan. 13 "listening session" on the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act provisions that require "knowledge testing" of affected parties. MAP-21, which requires the licensing and bonding of freight forwarders and property brokers, requires "the assessment of applicants’ knowledge of regulations and industry practices for persons seeking registration authority as motor carriers (property, passenger, and household goods (HHG), freight forwarders and brokers," the agency said. The listening session, to be held in Nashville, Tenn., is the first in a series"through which the Agency will request information from interested parties concerning potential test topics, the relationship between the knowledge testing requirement and the Agency’s Unified Registration System (URS) program, and test development and delivery," it said.