Latest Trucking Headlines
All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Smooth Waters Forms Agreement with National Cargo Bureau
Mar 14 2018 // Smooth Waters, LLC, a subsidiary of RSG Underwriting Managers, LLC (RSGUM), has entered into an engineering service agreement with the National Cargo Bureau, Inc. (NCB) to offer marine loss prevention and claims services...
Georgia Considering Commercial Truck-Only Highway
Feb 14 2018 // Georgia transportation officials are exploring the idea of a separate highway for trucks only. It would be the first highway of its kind in the United States, said John Hibbard, the Georgia Department of...
Still an Uphill Climb for Commercial Auto Market
Feb 5 2018 // The difficult job of moving commercial auto insurance to a profitable place has not gotten any easier. More vehicles on the road thanks to a rebounding economy, more miles driven, distracted drivers and...
North Dakota Livestock Producers Say Trucking Mandate Will Cost Them
Jan 16 2018 // A federal mandate requiring many motor carriers to install electronic logging devices could cost be costly to North Dakota’s cattle industry. Warren Zenker, who runs a cattle feeding operation near Elgin, told the...
Freight Train Collision in Alabama Injures 4
Jan 2 2018 // Two freight trains collided in rural Alabama, injuring four people on board. The Tuscaloosa News reports that that the collision happened Thursday afternoon in Pickens County. The sheriff’s office told the newspaper...
Ex-Tennessee Lawmaker Sues Trucking Company for $1.5M Over Accident Injuries
Dec 12 2017 // A former Tennessee lawmaker is suing an Illinois trucking company for injuries he received in a vehicle accident. The Kingsport Times News reports that former state Rep. Jason Mumpower, who is currently the Tennessee...
Small Trucking Firms Want Trump to Delay Electronic Log Requirement
Dec 8 2017 // Many independent U.S. truckers are pushing President Donald Trump to back his anti-regulatory rhetoric by delaying an Obama-era rule requiring electronic monitors in trucks, a measure some drivers fear could put them out...
U.S. to Investigate Growing Length of Freight Trains as Threat to Safety
Dec 7 2017 // The investigative arm of the U.S. Congress is launching a probe into the safety of increasingly long freight trains being operated by CSX Corp, Union Pacific Corp. and other major U.S. railroads to boost profitability, the...
Tesla Debuts 500-Mile Electric Heavy Duty Truck
Nov 17 2017 // Tesla Inc. upstaged its own debut of an electric heavy duty truck on Thursday when a red Roadster pulled out of the big rig’s trailer and Chief Executive Elon Musk said the new $200,000 sports car would be the...
Georgia College Expanding Commercial Truck Driver Training Program
Nov 16 2017 // A Georgia college is expanding its training program for commercial truck drivers as the U.S. faces a national trucker shortage. WALB-TV reports Albany Technical College plans to increase the number of seats in its...
InsuranceHub Expands Transportation Coverage to Additional Trucking Classes
Nov 9 2017 // InsuranceHub (formerly Lloyd Pro Group Agency) has expanded its Transportation Division to also cover long haul trucking, dump trucks and more. The division launched in 2016 with a focus on tow trucks. Some of the products...
Tough Road for Trucking Insurance Specialists
Nov 7 2017 // Trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy, representing 70.6 percent of all domestic freight transportation tonnage and $676 billion, or 79.8 percent,of transportation revenues in the country. Despite the...
BHSI Introduces Motor Truck Cargo Legal Liability Insurance in Canada
Oct 19 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has expanded its inland marine product line in Canada with the launch of its Motor Truck Cargo Legal Liability policy, a new product that protects against the...
China Delivery Firm ZTO Joins Consortium to Set Up Logistics Insurer – to Fill Coverage Gap
Oct 18 2017 // ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc., a Shanghai, China-based express delivery company, announced it has joined a seven-member consortium of its peers to set up a logistics insurer. ZTO said the insurer is being launched to fill the...
Feds Shut Down Iowa Trucking Company Tied to Trafficking Deaths
Oct 13 2017 // Federal safety regulators have shut down a troubled Iowa trucking company that owned the semitrailer involved in a human trafficking case in which 10 immigrants died in Texas. Pyle Transportation was placed under an...
Freight Train Derails in Georgia, Crashes Into Home
Oct 9 2017 // Authorities say a freight train derailed and crashed into a home in Atlanta, knocking it askew and injuring a man. Atlanta Fire Rescue officials said in a brief statement that “multiple cars” had derailed about...
Brokers Keep Trucking Market Motoring Despite Insurer Exits
Sep 18 2017 // Trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy, representing 70.6 percent of all domestic freight transportation tonnage and $676 billion, or 79.8 percent,of transportation revenues in the country. Despite the...
Trucking Industry Backs Bills Easing Self-Driving Vehicle Regulation
Sep 14 2017 // A U.S. trucking trade group and truck maker Navistar International Corp. urged a U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday to include self-driving commercial trucks in proposed legislation intended to speed autonomous vehicles to...
Rethinking Freight Flood Risk Management After Hurricane Harvey
Sep 8 2017 // A week before Hurricane Harvey walloped Houston, workers for Union Pacific Corp. began moving rail cars out of the railroad’s Englewood switching yard near downtown and brought in enough generators to fill 70 tractor...
Family Settles Suit Against Perdue, Trucking Firm Over Virginia Crash
Aug 24 2017 // A family has settled a lawsuit against Perdue Farms and a trucking company over the death of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy whose tractor was struck by a semi-truck carrying chicken. The Virginian-Pilot reported...
