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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

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.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
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.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
August 8, 2019
Government, Business

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.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
August 6, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Fuel

EPA IG Finds Study Critical of Glider Emissions Was Properly Conducted

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

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
August 1, 2019
Government, Business

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. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced July 29.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
August 1, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety

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.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
August 1, 2019
Government, Business, Safety

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 carrier’s safety profile instances when a crash could not be prevented.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
July 31, 2019
Government, Business

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.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
July 31, 2019
Government, Business, Safety

FMCSA Plans Survey on Harassment, Assaults of Minority, Female Truck Drivers

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is drawing up plans for a survey and study to better understand the “prevalence, seriousness, and nature of the problem of harassment and assaults against minority and female truckers.”

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
July 25, 2019
Government, Business

ATA: Trucking Industry Was Short More Than 60,000 Drivers in Meeting Demand at End of 2018

The U.S. trucker shortage swelled by more than 10,000 to 60,800 in 2018 from a year earlier and is expected to more than double to 160,000 over the next decade, according to new numbers released by American Trucking Associations.

Eric Miller | Senior Reporter
July 24, 2019