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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

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
Government

Phase 2 GHG Emissions Regulation Documents Released

Summaries of private industry meetings with Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials are among more than two dozen documents released by federal regulators related to a final Phase 2 heavy-duty truck greenhouse-gas emissions regulation.

March 3, 2016
Government

FMCSA Estimates Commercial Vehicle Safety Inspections Saved 472 Lives in 2012

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Feb. 29 released an annual analysis that estimates that commercial vehicle roadside safety inspection and traffic enforcement programs saved 472 lives in 2012.

February 29, 2016
BusinessGovernment

Lawmakers Celebrate FAST Act, Say More Funding Still Needed

WASHINGTON — Congressional and state transportation leaders were patting one another’s back at a briefing here for their work twisting arms and shepherding passage of a $305 billion “historic” long-term highway bill known as the FAST Act.

February 29, 2016
GovernmentBusiness

CVSA Concerned With HOS Exemptions

The increasing number of regulatory exemptions approved by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is causing confusion and inconsistencies in enforcement by roadside inspectors, according to the head of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.

February 29, 2016