Latest Trucking Headlines
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XL Catlin Launches New Cargo Policy for Marine Businesses
Apr 8 2016 // XL Catlin’s Americas Marine business has introduced its first new marine product, an enhanced insurance policy to offer more comprehensive cargo insurance coverage on a domestic, foreign or worldwide basis. Andrew...
Georgia-Based Trinity Underwriting Managers Hires Finley as Senior Broker
Apr 6 2016 // Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), a Georgia-based program administrator, has hired Bonita Finley as a senior transportation broker. Finley will help manage TUMI’s local and intermediate trucking business as...
TUMI Launches Local & Intermediate Trucking Program
Mar 18 2016 // Trinity Underwriting Managers, Inc. (TUMI), a Georgia based program administrator, has established a local and intermediate trucking program. This product is underwritten on behalf of an ‘A’ rated carrier and...
Unknown Amount of Oil from Leaking Cargo Ship in Southern California Harbor
Mar 15 2016 // Authorities say a large cargo ship has leaked an unknown amount of oil in the Los Angeles Harbor. The Coast Guard says the leak was reported Sunday evening, where an oily sheen was visible near the vessel Istra...
Florida Trucking Association Partners With CargoNet to Address State Cargo Theft
Mar 4 2016 // Verisk Analytics, a data analytics provider, has formed an alliance between its CargoNet business and the Florida Trucking Association (FTA) to help members reduce cargo theft risk and lobby for stricter penalties and more...
Trucking Industry Sees Safety Improvements
Feb 22 2016 // The rate of commercial truck-involved fatalities is declining, an industry trade group says. The American Trucking Associations say its analysis of federal Department of Transportation data shows safety improvements in the...
Coast Guard Probe Into Sinking of El Faro Cargo Ship Gets Underway
Feb 16 2016 // The U.S. Coast Guard begins hearings on Tuesday to investigate whether misconduct or negligence were factors in the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro during a hurricane last fall, an accident that left the vessel’s...
U.S. Again Warns Airlines Against Carrying Lithium Battery Cargo
Feb 10 2016 // U.S. aviation safety officials are raising new warnings about the dangers of carrying bulk shipments of lithium-based batteries on commercial flights. The Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates the aviation...
El Faro Cargo Ship Owner Settles Death Claims with Sailors’ Families
Jan 27 2016 // The families of 10 sailors aboard a cargo ship that sank in a hurricane last year have settled claims with the vessel’s owner. The Florida Times-Union reports that each of the families will receive $500,000 each in...
Trucking Industry Sees Safety Improvements
Jan 25 2016 // The rate of commercial truck-involved fatalities is declining, an industry trade group says. The American Trucking Associations reports that its analysis of federal Department of Transportation data shows safety...
Heffernan Executive Named Chair of California Trucking Association Chapter
Dec 29 2015 // Owen Oakley, vice president at Heffernan Insurance Brokers, has been named chairman for the San Francisco chapter of the California Trucking Association. Owen previously served as a steering and planning committee...
Hiscox Appoints Golder to Head Marine Cargo Business Re-Entry
Dec 17 2015 // Hiscox London Market has appointed Richard Golder as Marine Cargo Line Underwriter, marking the insurer’s re-entry into the marine cargo business. Golder will be supported by Jack Bryan who takes on the role of...
Widow of Wyoming Man Killed by Sleeping Trucker Files Suit
Dec 8 2015 // The widow of a man who died after a truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and struck him in southern Wyoming is suing for wrongful death. The Rock Springs Rocket-Miner reported that Katsiaryna Krauchanka has filed a...
Huge Highway Bill Includes Safety, Trucking, Rail, Ex-Im Bank Provisions
Dec 3 2015 // U.S House and Senate lawmakers reached agreement on Tuesday on a $305 billion, five-year transportation bill that would revive the politically embattled Export-Import Bank while funding roads, bridges and mass transit. The...
Insurance ‘Sting’ Aims to Catch Cargo Thieves During Their Busy Holiday Season
Dec 1 2015 // Somewhere in America, a tractor-trailer loaded with hidden surveillance equipment is parked at a truck stop or warehouse while authorities wait for thieves to steal it. No one is sure when, or even if, crooks will take it....
Technology to Improve Truckers Safety Tested in Utah
Nov 23 2015 // Utah is test-driving new technology that could improve safety and fuel efficiency for big-rig truckers. The Utah Department of Transportation started conducting field tests last week of a vehicle-to-vehicle communication...
Heffernan Executive Named California Trucking Association Chair
Nov 19 2015 // Tanner Fornesi, assistant vice president at Heffernan Insurance Brokers, has been named vice chairman for the Sacramento chapter of the California Trucking Association. Fornesi’s new duties will include attending...
Trucker in Fatal Oklahoma Crash Had History of Synthetic Drug Use
Nov 17 2015 // The truck that killed four members of a college women’s softball team in Oklahoma last year was driven by a Texas man with a history of using synthetic marijuana, U.S. safety investigators found. Russell Staley...
Claims Deadline for Sunken Cargo Ship El Faro Set
Nov 13 2015 // A federal judge has set a deadline for damage claims filed by relatives of crewmembers who were lost aboard a cargo ship that sank last month in Hurricane Joaquin. U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Schlesinger set Dec. 21...
Florida Man Sues Trucking Company, Driver for $10M Over Crash That Killed Family
Nov 9 2015 // A northeast Florida man has filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against a semi-truck driver and others related to a wreck that killed his wife and three stepchildren. The SUV Dexter Culclager’s family had been...
