Eric Hein

Eric Hein is a retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service policy analyst, a board member of the Institute for Safer Trucking, and the author of a peer-reviewed cost-benefit analysis of side underride guards for new semitrailers in the U.S.

His son Riley was killed in a side underride crash in 2015. Their story is featured in the ProPublica/Frontline documentary America's Dangerous Trucks.

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