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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.


Government

FMCSA Plans 2-Year Test to Permit Removal of Some No-Fault Crashes From CSA Scores

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration outlined plans for a two-year program allowing certain nonpreventable crashes to be removed from motor carriers’ public and private safety profiles.

July 18, 2016
Government, Business, Equipment, Safety, Technology, Autonomous

Commercial Vehicle Inspectors to Conduct Brake Checks Sept. 11-17

Commercial vehicle inspectors will be out in force beginning Sept. 11 to conduct brake system inspections on large trucks and buses throughout North America.

July 15, 2016
Government

FMCSA Announces Plans for Crash-Accountability Demonstration Program

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on July 11 outlined plans for a two-year demonstration program that would allow certain nonpreventable crashes to be removed from motor carriers’ public and private safety scores.

July 11, 2016
Government

FMCSA Announces Plans for Crash-Accountability Demonstration Program

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on July 7 announced plans to begin a demonstration program to evaluate a potential crash-accountability policy change allowing certain nonpreventable crashes to be removed from carriers’ crash indicator safety score.

July 7, 2016
Government

CARB Truck and Bus Regulation Compliance Declined in 2015

The rate of compliance for heavy trucks with the California Air Resources Board’s truck and bus regulation has decreased to 70%-75% from 85% over the past two years, according to estimates in a new CARB enforcement report.

June 28, 2016
Business

FMCSA Defends E-Log Rule From OOIDA Legal Challenge

In a brief filed with a federal appeals court, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration defended a legal challenge to the agency’s electronic logging device rule by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association.

June 27, 2016
Business

FMC Backs SOLAS Terminal Weighing Plan

The trade association representing 19 ocean carriers and the Federal Maritime Commission have announced their support for using marine terminal scales to determine the verified gross mass of containers when an international shipping rule goes into effect July 1.

June 27, 2016
Government

Trucking Wary of ‘Beyond Compliance’

The trucking industry generally supports the idea of a Beyond Compliance program that would give extra credit to motor carriers that improve safety programs or deploy safety technologies before they are required by regulation, but the process is still not without suspicion.

June 27, 2016
Government

FMCSA Issues Rule Increasing Most Motor Carrier Civil Penalties

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued an interim final rule increasing — and in some cases decreasing — its motor carrier civil penalties for violations of federal regulations.

June 24, 2016
Government, Business, Safety

Public Comment Period on Safety Fitness Determination Proposed Rule Ends on June 23

Public comments on FMCSA’s Safety Fitness Determination proposed rule were scheduled to end at the close of business on June 23.

June 23, 2016