A South Carolina father and son and their trucking operations were shut down by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as “imminent hazards to public safety,” the agency said Dec. 31.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will gather public opinion on setting up knowledge testing for new applicants seeking authority to operate as motor carriers, brokers and freight forwarders.

U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y) went to Burr Truck & Trailer Sales in Vestal, N.Y., on Dec. 9 to promote his bill to roll back part of the new hours-of-service rule for truck drivers, he said.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed keeping the national volume requirement of biodiesel production at the 2013 level of 1.28 billion gallons a year through 2015, the agency said in the Federal Register.

A federal appeals court denied a request to postpone enforcement of a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rule that would increase to $75,000 from $10,000 the minimum amount of a surety bond the businesses must carry.

FMCSA has shut down five household-goods moving companies in three states, alleging that the carriers were “holding customer shipments hostage and failing to turn over records related to their investigations.”