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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.


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Feds Grant Two-Year Hours-of-Service Exemption for Some HazMat Drivers

Federal regulators have granted a two-year exemption for some hazardous material drivers to the hours-of-service rule on 30-minute breaks.

August 21, 2015
Business

NTDC 2015 Champion: Wal-Mart Driver Ronald Emenheiser

ST. LOUIS — Ronald Emenheiser Sr., a Wal-Mart Transportation professional truck driver based in Yorkana, Pennsylvania, took home 2015 Bendix Grand Champion honors at the  National Truck Driving Championships. See full list of winners, photos.

August 17, 2015
Business

Board Recommends Testing of Hair as New Option for Drug Screenings

After two years of study, a federal drug advisory board has issued a recommendation that hair specimens be approved as an alternative for federal workplace drug-testing programs.

August 17, 2015
Business

Darling, Graves Praise Drivers as NTDC Competition Begins

ST. LOUIS — Scott Darling, in his first public appearance since his nomination to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, thanked the 431 truck drivers competing in the 2015 National Trucking Driving Championships for their “dedication to safety.â€

August 17, 2015
Business

At NTDC 2015, Automatic Transmissions Unpopular With Drivers

ST. LOUIS — You might think that a heavy truck with an automatic transmission would make it easier to negotiate the tight course here at the 2015 National Truck Driving Championships. You would be wrong.

August 14, 2015
Business

NTDC 2015: North Carolina Trooper Wins Inspectors' Grand Champion Title

ST. LOUIS — North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper J.D. Berrong was presented the Jimmy K. Ammons Award, the highest honor for roadside inspectors.

August 14, 2015
Business

Fewer Women Qualify for NTDC One Year After Record

Eleven women drivers were in the National Truck Driving Championships competition last year — the most ever. But this year they lost ground, with only five women qualifying.

August 14, 2015
Business

NTDC 2015: Darling, Graves Praise Drivers’ Dedication

ST. LOUIS — Scott Darling, in his first public appearance since his nomination to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, thanked the 431 truck drivers competing in the 2015 National Trucking Driving Championships for their “dedication to safety.â€

August 13, 2015
Business

NTDC Drivers Learn to Sweat the Small Stuff

ST. LOUIS — Even the best truck drivers in the nation have to be reminded sometimes that the little things count — or can count against them, in the case of the 2015 National Truck Driving Championships.

August 13, 2015
Business

Drivers Set to Take the Field In St. Louis for 2015 NTDC

Don Biggerstaff likes to spend his free time fishing, so until this year, he had been unwilling to take a shot at competing in the National Truck Driving Championships.

August 10, 2015