Latest Trucking Headlines
All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tank containers and the inland marine market
Mar 26 2007 // Specialty niche offers multi-modal transport and multi-insurance coverage concerns They’re more difficult to handle, but the cargo carriers are aware of the risks,” said Ben Armistead, chairman of Greenwich...
Tank containers and the inland marine market
Mar 26 2007 // They’re more difficult to handle, but the cargo carriers are aware of the risks,” said Ben Armistead, chairman of Greenwich Transportation Underwriters (GTU) in Nashville, Tenn. “A lot of things can...
R.I., Mass. Safest While Wyo., Ark. Deadliest States for Truck Crashes
Mar 15 2007 // Wyoming and Arkansas are the deadliest states for truck crashes, according to a safety group that has called for tougher federal regulation to reduce fatalities hovering above 100 a week nationwide for years. The safest...
Wis. Court Says Insurance Company Should Pay for Mistreating Trucker
Feb 22 2007 // A jury properly awarded a northeast Wisconsin trucker $115,000 to punish his insurance company for how it handled his claim after his semi-truck hit a deer, a state appeals court ruled this week. The insurance company...
Injured Ark. trucker wins court order for rehearing
Jan 29 2007 // The Arkansas Court of Appeals says the state Work-ers’ Compensation Commission did such a poor job of considering an injured trucker’s claim that it was “impossible” for the court to properly review...
10 Injured Ark. trucker wins court order for rehearing
Jan 28 2007 // Judge criticizes state Workers’ Compensation Commission 10 Accused of insurance fraud, La. police officer resigns Change in accident report at issue 10 La. Citizens gets nod to raise rates Statewide average...
Ark. Injured Trucker Wins Court Order for Workers’ Comp Rehearing
Jan 19 2007 // The Arkansas Court of Appeals says the state Workers’ Compensation Commission did such a poor job of considering an injured trucker’s claim that it was “impossible” for the court to properly review...
Arrowhead Wholesale Offers Trucking Insurance
Jan 16 2007 // Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services LLC of San Diego, Calif., is announcing a new “A-” VIII rated admitted trucking carrier in California. The program provides coverage for physical damage, motor cargo, and...
AIX Group Unveils Program for Auto Physical Damage Cover for Trucking
Jan 10 2007 // Windsor, Conn.-based AIX Group Inc. announced a new program to provide automobile physical damage coverage to commercial trucking operations. This program will be targeting operations with above average loss experience and...
Despite 2004 Ruling, Mexican Truck Travel Still Limited
Jan 2 2007 // Mexican trucker Brigido Moctezuma lives in a city just south of Mexico’s border with Texas, far from talks on whether he’ll be able to drive his loads of vehicle air bags all the way to assembly lines in...
M.J. Hall Offers Long Haul Trucking Program
Dec 27 2006 // M.J. Hall and Co. Inc., a general agent and surplus lines wholesaler, has a new program for long haul truckers garaged in California. It covers liability, physical damage, cargo and trucker’s general liability. The...
2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
N.Y.-N.J. Ports Panel Urges Nationwide Cargo Standards, Security Czar
Dec 22 2006 // A port security task force this week urged that the nation adopt mandatory security standards for cargo and that the president appoint a port security czar to coordinate the federal agencies that oversee the nation’s...
Truckers seek to slow big-rigs by proposing max speed on truck
Nov 20 2006 // A lobbying group for the largest U.S. trucking companies is seeking a 68-mile-per-hour speed limit for newly manufactured big-rigs to reduce crashes and save lives. The goal is to cut “the number and severity of...
Top 10 trucking concerns
Nov 20 2006 // So what keeps truckers awake at night? The American Transportation Research Institute, the trucking industry’s not-for-profit research institute, unveiled its list of the top 10 critical issues facing U.S....
Truckers seek to slow big-rigs by proposing max speed on truck
Nov 19 2006 // A lobbying group for the largest U.S. trucking companies is seeking a 68-mile-per-hour speed limit for newly manufactured big-rigs to reduce crashes and save lives. The goal is to cut “the number and severity of...
One in five truck drivers reports falling asleep at the wheel
Nov 19 2006 // When a tractor-trailer overturned on a Maryland road, it spilled lumber onto the roadway below and killed a motorist. The same week in a nearby Virginia community, a jury awarded $17 million to the family of a 17 year-old...
Interstate, Swiss Re Expand Trucking Program into Virginia, Indiana
Nov 15 2006 // Interstate Insurance Management (IIM) and Swiss Re’s Commercial Insurance are expannding their insurance program for the trucking industry into Virginia and Indiana. The program, which has been in operation since...
Truckers Seek to Slow Big-Rigs
Oct 19 2006 // A lobbying group for the largest U.S. trucking companies is seeking a 68-mile-per-hour speed limit for newly manufactured big-rigs to reduce crashes and save lives. The goal is to cut “the number and severity of...
