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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, Government, Safety

FMCSA Revises Process to Speed Up Investigations of High­-Risk Carriers

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has revamped its carrier prioritization process to enable safety investigators to take more immediate action against carriers with the highest crash risk.

March 14, 2016
Business, Government, Safety

Feds Propose Training Rule

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last week published its negotiated proposed entry-level driver training rule that would revise standards for a commercial driver license to be obtained by new interstate and intrastate commercial vehicle operators.

March 14, 2016
Government, Business

DOT Offers $1.4 Billion in TIFIA Credit Assistance for Infrastructure Projects

The Department of Transportation on March 11 announced the availability of $1.4 billion in credit assistance over the next five years for critical infrastructure projects nationwide, using Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act funding. 

March 11, 2016
Safety

More Research on Truck Driver Fatigue Needed, Panel of National Researchers Advises

While there is some evidence that truck driver fatigue can increase crash risk, questions remain about effective ways to minimize that risk, according to a new research report from an expert study panel of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

March 10, 2016
Business

Federal Investigators Release Summary of Material Collected in Pilot Flying J Probe

Federal investigators have amassed voluminous electronic and paper documents and 200 hours of recorded conversations between confidential sources and a number of individuals during the course of their criminal investigation of alleged rebate fraud at Pilot Travel Centers.

March 9, 2016
Government

FMCSA Returns CSA Raw Data to Public View

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced on March 7 that it has returned to public view the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program’s raw safety data for property motor carriers.

March 7, 2016
Government

FMCSA Extends Comment Period for Proposed Safety Fitness Determination Rule

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has extended by two months, to May 23, the public-comment period for its proposed safety fitness determination rule.

March 7, 2016
Government

FMCSA Revamps Definition of High-Risk Carrier

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has revamped its carrier prioritization process to enable safety investigators to take more immediate action against carriers with the highest crash risk.

March 7, 2016

FedEx Ground Garners Partial Court Victory in Massachusetts Driver Classification Case

A federal appellate court has given FedEx Ground a partial victory in a Massachusetts case in which a class of delivery drivers is seeking to be classified as company employees.

March 7, 2016
Government

FMCSA Announces Plans to Issue Proposed Entry-Level Driver Training Rule

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on March 4 made public its “negotiated” proposed entry-level driver training rule that would revise the standards required for new interstate and intrastate commercial vehicle operators to obtain a commercial driver license.

March 4, 2016