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Eric Miller

Senior Reporter

@ericdmiller46

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, Technology, Equipment

Feds Extend Handheld Cellphone Ban to include Hazmat Truckers

Federal regulators have issued a proposed rule that would extend a ban on the use of handheld cellphones to include intrastate hazardous materials motor carriers.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
May 3, 2011
Government, Safety

Truck-Related Accident Injuries Drop 18%

The number of injuries in U.S. truck related accidents declined by 18% in 2009, according to new statistics compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
April 26, 2011
Government, Business

Report Urges NAFTA Cooperation on Emissions

There is an urgent need for cross-border cooperation between the United States, Canada and Mexico to reduce truck and train greenhouse-gas emissions which would in turn help safeguard regional economic competitiveness, according to a new study.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
April 5, 2011
Government, Business

House Panel Fields Queries on Highway Bill

Members of a key House panel began hearing proposals Tuesday from members of Congress about ways to fund a six-year highway reauthorization bill without exceeding Highway Trust Fund revenues that are mostly derived from federal gas and diesel taxes.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
April 5, 2011
Government, Business

Mica Optimistic on Long-Term Transport Bill

Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, told a group of shippers attending a Washington legislative policy forum Tuesday that he plans to get a long-term transportation reauthorization bill on the House floor sometime in May.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
March 29, 2011
Government, Business

ATA Mulls Suit Over HOS Rule

American Trucking Associations is “poised” to file a lawsuit against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration if the agency adopts a proposed rule that would cut driver time to 10 hours a day, ATA Chairman Barbara Windsor said.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
March 22, 2011
Government, Business

New Senate Bill Would Create Infrastructure Bank

A bipartisan group of Senators has introduced a bill that would create a national infrastructure bank to issue loans and loan guarantees for transportation and other infrastructure projects of regional and national significance.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
March 22, 2011
Government, Business, Fuel

DeFazio Proposes Limiting Detention Time

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has introduced a bill that would require the Department of Transportation to study and establish a maximum number of hours that drivers may be detained at loading docks without being compensated.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
February 22, 2011
Government, Business, Logistics

Shippers Cite Concerns on FMC Investigation of Ocean Carriers

A shipper group has expressed “profound disappointment” over a so-called fact-finding investigation by the Federal Maritime Commission into numerous U.S. importer and exporter complaints about “perceived malpractices” by ocean carriers that resulted in supply-chain service disruptions and rate and surcharge increases in late 2009 and 2010.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
December 13, 2010
Government, Business

NTTC Asks for 1997 Crash Investigation to be Reopened

The president of the National Tank Truck Carriers has asked the National Transportation Safety Board to withdraw and reopen its investigation into a fatal 1997 tank truck accident that he said has become the “poster child” of the agency’s longtime campaign to require purge retrofits for cargo tank wetlines.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
December 7, 2010