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Eric Miller

Senior Reporter

Eric Miller has been a reporter and writer at publications nationwide for 40 years. Hes been at Transport Topics the past 11 years, currently on the papers 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.


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CVSA Asks Senate to Fund an Updated Major Crash Causation Study

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has asked U.S. Senate appropriators to include funding in the 2020 transportation funding bill for a study that would explore the causes for commercial vehicle crashes, an update to a similar study completed 16 years ago.

August 9, 2019
GovernmentBusiness

Government: Fitzgerald Now Owes $83 Million in Back Taxes

Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice have filed a counterclaim against Fitzgerald Truck Parts and Sales, adjusting the sum the glider truck maker owes the IRS to $83 million from $64 million for not collecting a 12% excise sales taxes on retail glider sales dating to 2012.

August 9, 2019
GovernmentBusiness

Walmart Fights $54 Million Lawsuit Verdict Awarding Drivers Sleeper Berth Pay

A three-member panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Aug. 6 in an appeal by Walmart Transportation of a $54 million jury damage award in 2016.

August 8, 2019

CVSA Inspectors Place More Than 1,600 CMVs Out of Service for Brake Violations

Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance inspectors removed more than 1,600 commercial vehicles from roadways in the U.S. and Canada for critical brake-related violations during an unannounced enforcement effort.

August 8, 2019
GovernmentBusiness

Swift to Pay CRST $15 Million in Damages Over Driver Recruiting

A lawsuit CRST Expedited Inc. filed against Swift Transportation Co. that alleged Swift poached drivers was one of three such challenges CRST has lodged against competitors, but is so far the only one that has resulted in a financial penalty.

August 6, 2019
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafetyFuel

EPA IG Finds Study Critical of Glider Emissions Was Properly Conducted

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Inspector General audit has given a 2017 agency study critical of glider truck emissions a clean bill of health.

August 1, 2019
GovernmentBusiness

California Trucking School Owner Pleads Guilty to $4.3 Million Scam

The owner of a California trucking school has pleaded guilty to swindling the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs out of more than $4 million in tuition and other payments after falsely certifying that hundreds of veterans had attended classes they never took, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Central District of California announced July 29.

August 1, 2019
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety

Trucking Stakeholders Ask Congress to Repeal the 12% Federal Excise Tax on Trucks, Trailers

A group of trucking stakeholders asked Congress to repeal the 12% federal excise tax on the purchase of heavy-duty trucks, tractors and trailers.

August 1, 2019
GovernmentBusinessSafety

FMCSA Proposes Making Crash Preventability Program Permanent

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on July 31 proposed to make permanent a demonstration program that documents on a driver's or motor carriers safety profile instances when a crash could not be prevented.

July 31, 2019
GovernmentBusiness

Regulatory, Legal Guidance Could Soon Provide Clarity on the Transport of Hemp

Potential solutions to some of the vexing problems that truckers and law enforcement are facing regarding the transportation of legal hemp across state lines could be coming soon.

July 31, 2019