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Eric Miller

Senior Reporter

Eric Miller has been a reporter and writer at publications nationwide for 40 years. He’s been at Transport Topics the past 11 years, currently on the paper’s government team; worked as a reporter at the Dallas Morning News; reporter, editor and member of the investigative team at The Arizona Republic; reporter at the Tampa Tribune; city editor at the Santa Fe New Mexican; and senior writer for D Magazine in Dallas.


Business

Outgoing ATA Chairman Kevin Burch Plans to Continue Telling Trucking’s Story

Although his term ended last week as chairman of American Trucking Associations, don’t count on Kevin Burch to fade away.

October 26, 2017
Business

Four Trucking Legends Credit a Passion to Be the Best

ORLANDO, Fla. — The secret to success in the trucking industry isn’t really much of a secret after all, according to four industry “legends.”

October 24, 2017
Government, Business

Survey Finds Growing Public Support for Gas Tax, Trucking Industry

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new survey sponsored by American Trucking Associations shows widening public support for an increase in the gas tax.

October 24, 2017
Business

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Becomes ATA Member

ORLANDO, Fla. — J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. has become American Trucking Associations’ newest member.

October 24, 2017
Government, Business

Truckers Key to Job Growth, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta Says

ORLANDO, Fla. — The trucking industry can play a major role in creating quality apprenticeship programs that could teach the skills needed to put some of the nation’s nearly 7 million job seekers to work, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said.

October 23, 2017
Government, Business, Safety

‘Item Response Theory’ Model Has Potential to Reduce Crashes, FMCSA Says

ORLANDO, Fla. — A new complex statistical model that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is exploring would utilize data to measure a motor carrier’s “safety culture,” rather than attempt to predict its likelihood of a crash, a top agency official said.

October 22, 2017
Business

Three Fleets Capture ATA’s President’s Award

ORLANDO, Fla. — American Trucking Associations on Oct. 22 announced several of the industry’s top honors at the association’s Leadership and Awards Luncheon at its annual Management Conference & Exhibition.

October 22, 2017
Business

Motor Carrier Insurer Acuity Expands Operations to Texas

ORLANDO, Fla. — Commercial Motor Carrier insurer Acuity has expanded operations to Texas, the company announced at a press conference at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition on Oct. 21.

October 21, 2017
Business, Safety

Drug Testing Failure Rate for ‘Safety-Sensitive’ Workers Soars

The percentage of U.S. workers in “safety-sensitive” jobs — a category that includes truck drivers — who flunked their federally-mandated drug tests increased at an “alarming” rate from 2015 to 2016, according to an analysis of drug testing data collected by the nation’s largest lab. Overall, the percentage of safety-sensitive workers who failed crept up year-over-year, the report said.

October 19, 2017
Government

FHWA Announces Proposal for Pilot to Eliminate State-Federal Duplication of Environmental Reviews

Federal regulators have proposed a pilot program intended to eliminate duplication of the environmental review process by allowing up to five states to conduct the reviews for infrastructure projects using state law rather than federal law.

October 11, 2017