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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.


GovernmentSafety

FMCSA Assigns CSA Severity Weights to ELD Violations

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has assigned severity weights to each of about a dozen electronic logging device-related violations that are being recorded on a drivers or motor carriers safety profile score.

April 17, 2018
GovernmentBusiness

Panel Issues Interim Report to Accelerate Recommendations for Truck Size, Weight Limits

A specially appointed committee of academic and policy experts has issued an interim report on its plans to plug data and research gaps that have for several years delayed federal policy recommendations for changes to truck size and weight limits.

April 16, 2018
GovernmentBusiness

Trucking Industry Leaders Join Trump to Tout Tax Reform

A trucking executive and truck driver joined President Donald Trump at the podium during an April 12 White House Rose Garden event held to discuss the effects the tax reform law passed by Congress in December had on businesses.

April 12, 2018
GovernmentBusiness

California Trucking School Charged in $4.3 Million VA Fraud

Surely former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw had no way of knowing that a California truck driver training school he was featuring on his TV news program in 2014 was at the same time being investigated for bilking the Veterans Administration out of millions of dollars for students that never even intended to show up for classes.

April 12, 2018
GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel

FMCSA Grants Fuel Tank Drivers 5-Year Rest-Break Exemption

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has granted a five-year exemption from the 30-minute rest-break requirement for trucks hauling petroleum products and will allow fuel trucks to operate 12 hours a day without triggering the requirement under certain conditions.

April 10, 2018
Government

Heidi King Nominated to Become NHTSA Administrator

Heidi King has been nominated by President Donald Trump to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

April 9, 2018
GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety

Stoneridge Seeks FMCSA Exemption to Allow Camera Monitoring System

Stoneridge Inc. has requested an exemption to allow motor carriers to operate commercial motor vehicles with the companys MirrorEye Camera Monitor System installed as an alternative to the two rear-vision mirrors required by federal regulations. Stoneridge said it has developed, tested and manufactured the digital camera system to improve safety by providing truck and bus drivers with an enhanced field of view.

April 5, 2018
GovernmentBusinessTechnologySafety

A Day at the Inspection Pit: Truck Drivers Display ELD Compliance

DUMFRIES, Va. Under gray skies on the cold morning of April 3, Sgt. Steve Vilbert of the Virginia State Police lay in wait on an Interstate 95 exit ramp ready to nab any truck driver who hadnt installed an electronic logging device on his truck. Just two days after a soft-enforcement period for ELD usage had ended, history told Vilbert there could be some violators.

April 4, 2018
GovernmentBusiness

REST Bill Would Modify HOS to Allow Drivers One Three-Hour Break Per Shift

A bill has been introduced that would allow truck drivers to take one rest break per shift, for up to three consecutive hours on off-duty time.

March 30, 2018
GovernmentBusinessLogistics

Federal Appeals Court Dismisses ATAs New York Thruway Lawsuit

A federal appeals court has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed in 2013 by American Trucking Associations alleging that the New York State Thruway Authority did not have the right to use toll revenues collected from commercial truckers to support the states canal system.

March 29, 2018