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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, OSHA to Work Together on Coercion Claims

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at strengthening coordination between the agencies in investigating truck driver safety, coercion and retaliation complaints against motor carriers.

July 24, 2014
Government

FMCSA Sued Over Information in Driver Inspection Reports

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has “intentionally or willfully” improperly disseminated truck-driver inspection reports that contain references to violations not classified as “serious driver-related safety violations,” according to a lawsuit filed by six independent owner-operator truck drivers.

July 24, 2014
Government, Business

Court: California's Meal and Rest Break Laws Apply to Truck Drivers Too

A federal appeals court ruled on July 9 that federal law does not exempt motor carriers from a California law requiring that they provide truck drivers no less than a 30-minute paid meal break when their work period is more than five hours.

July 10, 2014
Government, Business

Supreme Court Declines to Hear OOIDA Cross-Border Trucking Case

For the second time in five months, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association challenging the legality of a federal cross-border pilot program allowing some Mexican trucks to operate in the United States.

June 25, 2014
Business

Inspectors Confirm Dirt Pile Caused I-495 Bridge Piers to Buckle

Federal Highway Administration inspectors have confirmed earlier suspicions that a 50,000-ton pile of fill dirt placed adjacent to the I-495 Christina River Bridge site in Wilmington, Delaware, caused a buckling of four of the bridge’s 37 piers that led to its closing earlier this month.

June 20, 2014
Government

Federal Appeals Court Dismisses CSA Lawsuit Alleging Regulators Broke Rules

A federal appeals court on June 17 dismissed a lawsuit alleging that federal regulators did not follow the law when they implemented the Compliance, Safety, Accountability ratings program.

June 17, 2014
Government, Business

CVSA Head: Study HOS Impact, But Don't Make Changes Now

Congress should not make changes to the current hours-of-service rule, the executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance said June 16.

June 16, 2014
Business

Labor Day Reopening Targeted for I-495 Bridge in Delaware

The southbound lanes of the I-495 bridge spanning the Christina River in Wilmington, Delaware, will not be reopened until Labor Day at the soonest, and the northbound lanes could be opened several weeks later, Delaware Department of Transportation officials said June 10.

June 10, 2014
Government, Business

Regulators Grant Livestock Haulers HOS Exemption

Federal regulators have granted drivers transporting livestock a one-year exemption from an hours-of-service requirement that they take a 30-minute rest break before driving no more than eight hours.

June 6, 2014
Business

I-495 Bridge in Delaware Closes After Failing Inspection

An Interstate 495 bridge in Wilmington, Delaware, has been closed indefinitely after inspectors discovered that four of the 37 support columns are tilted as much as 4% out of vertical alignment, the Delaware Department of Transportation said.

June 3, 2014