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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, Business, Safety, Logistics

Penske to Appeal Meal Break Ruling to Supreme Court

Attorneys for Penske Logistics said they plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s decision upholding a California law requiring employers to provide a paid 30-minute meal break for employees working more than five hours.

September 17, 2014
Government

Speed Limiter Rule, Minimum Insurance Requirement Delayed a Month by Regulators

Federal regulators have moved back by nearly a month their projected announcements of two proposed rules, one that would raise the minimum insurance requirement for interstate motor carriers, and the other requiring speed limiters on heavy trucks, according to a new Department of Transportation report.

September 16, 2014
Government, Business

Movers Seek Hours-of-Service Exemption

The American Moving & Storage Association has applied for an exemption for its 3,700 member companies from federal regulations preventing motor carriers from driving following the 14th hour after coming on duty.

September 10, 2014
Government

FMCSA Extends Electronic Off-Site Audit Testing

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is extending through December its operational testing in several states comparing off-site new electronic motor carrier entrant audits to the traditional new entrant safety audits conducted at the motor carriers’ place of business.

September 10, 2014
Business

Video System to Alert Truck Drivers to Parking Spaces at Minnesota Rest Stops

Transportation officials in Minnesota have deployed a new video technology system at three rest stops along the Interstate 94 corridor near the Twin Cities to help truckers find safe places to park.

September 5, 2014
Government, Business

FMCSA to Study Driver Pay, Safety Relationship

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will study whether the method of paying truck drivers has any relationship to safety, the agency announced.

September 2, 2014
Business

I-495 Bridge in Delaware Opens to All Traffic

The northbound lanes of the Interstate 495 bridge spanning the Christina River in Wilmington have reopened more than a week ahead of projections, restoring traffic in both directions, Delaware Secretary of Transportation Shailen Bhatt announced Aug. 23.

August 25, 2014
Government

FMCSA Exploring Classroom Training Requirements for Entry-Level Truck Drivers

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it is exploring the feasibility of a “negotiated rulemaking” to include minimum federal behind-the-wheel and classroom training requirements for entry-level truck drivers.

August 18, 2014
Government, Business, Safety

Proposed Reverse Logistics Rule to Offer Exemption From Some Regs

A proposed reverse logistics rule would offer an exception from existing regulations for certain reverse logistics shipments by highway that will create “opportunities for reduced compliance costs among hazmat shippers and carriers, without any decrease in safety,” federal hazmat regulators said.

August 13, 2014
Government, Business, Safety, Logistics, Autonomous

Insufficient Route Planning, Escort Failure to Blame For Skagit River Bridge Failure, Investigation Finds

Insufficient motor carrier route planning, a failure by a pilot/escort to warn of potential hazards and inadequate evaluation of oversize load permit requests by state officials were the probable causes of an oversize truck strike that brought down the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge in Washington state, according to a final investigation report of the National Transportation Safety Board.

August 8, 2014