Latest Trucking Headlines
All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
South Carolina Court Denies Motor Carrier Exemption for Liability Limits
Jun 12 2009 // The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that a trucker paid to haul cut trees is a commercial motor carrier required to carry liability insurance limits of at least $750,000 and does not qualify either as a private...
West Virginia Fines Trucking Firm for Fatal Mining Accident
May 21 2009 // The state of West Virginia has fined a trucking company $50,000 for violations investigators say contributed to a fatal coal mining accident in February, a spokeswoman for the Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and...
Progressive Offering Liability Insurance for Coal Hauling Truckers
Apr 23 2009 // National insurer Progressive Commercial has expanded its truck insurance offerings to include liability coverage for truckers involved in coal hauling. Liability coverages for coal hauling truckers and businesses have been...
Georgia Trucking Insurance Agent Charged
Apr 20 2009 // A Chattanooga, Tenn. insurance agent has been charged with insurance fraud and theft for allegedly adding commissions to policies when he told policyholders that the coverage was being sold on a net basis – with a...
Special Delivery: Added Value with Cargo Insurance
Apr 20 2009 // As Cargo Theft Rises, Carriers’ Special Investigative Units Offer Relief A driver pulls into a truck stop, heads inside to shower and eat — and then discovers his fully loaded trailer gone when he returns. A...
Marine Cargo Insurance for Small to Mid-Size Businesses Doesn’t Have to Sink the Ship
Apr 20 2009 // Importers and exporters that ship only a modest volume of goods do not have to settle for the often pricey or inadequate marine cargo insurance that is available from freight forwarders — the usual source of this...
Georgia Charges Tennessee Trucking Insurance Agent with $2.6 Million Fraud
Apr 10 2009 // A Chattanooga, Tenn. insurance agent has been charged with insurance fraud and theft for allegedly adding commissions to policies when he told policyholders that the coverage was being sold on a net basis — with a...
‘Granny’ Trucker Generous After Insurance Co. Big Rig Win
Apr 1 2009 // A big-hearted trucker known as “Granny” recently won Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s 2009 Big Rig Giveaway and decided pay her luck forward to fellow truckers. Dianne Smith of...
Union Pacific Freight Car Carrying Molten Sulfur Derails in Louisiana
Mar 9 2009 // Louisiana State Police have lifted a shelter-in-place order resulting from the derailing of a freight train car carrying molten sulfur near Placquemine, La., on Mar. 7. The derailed freight car sprang a leak and dribbled...
South Dakota Trucking Firm Operates Despite Insurance Violation Charges
Mar 2 2009 // A federal judge has signed a preliminary injunction that will allow a Sioux Falls trucking company to keep operating while a court case against it advances, as long as it carries insurance. Action Carrier Inc. was ordered...
Florida Puts Brakes on Agent Accused of Not Placing Truckers’ Insurance
Jan 27 2009 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is urging the commercial trucking industry and the public to provide any information that may assist the Department of Financial Services’ ongoing criminal investigation into...
Flood & Peterson Insurance Receives Award for Service to Trucking Industry
Jan 27 2009 // Greeley, Colo.-based Flood & Peterson Insurance has received the “Delivering the Difference” award from Great West Casualty Co., recognizing the company as a top agency representing the West. The national...
U.S.-Mexico Cross Border Trucking Project Extended for Two More Years
Nov 5 2008 // The U.S. Department of Transportation recently extended for two years the cross-border trucking demonstration project, a reciprocal agreement that allows up to 100 Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the U.S....
Cross-Border Trucking, Competitiveness Concerns in Arizona
Oct 20 2008 // Being the sixth-largest state in the nation, and one of the fastest-growing, makes Arizona an attractive place to live and do business. And that means the state is desirable from an insurance perspective, too, according to...
Travelers Unveils Sting Trailer to Combat Cargo Theft
Sep 9 2008 // Cargo theft accounts for up to $25 billion in direct merchandise losses each year, according to the National Cargo Security Council. With more than 675,000 registered interstate motor carriers moving 65 percent of the...
Man Pinned under Cargo Elevator in Connecticut
Sep 3 2008 // Officials in Milford, Connecticut say a 29-year-old man has been hospitalized for traumatic injuries after he was pinned under a 1,000-pound freight elevator. Firefighters were called to the Optical Polymers International...
U.S.-Mexico Cross Border Trucking Project Extended for 2 More Years
Sep 1 2008 // In early August 2008 the U.S. Department of Transportation extended for two years the cross border trucking demonstration project, a reciprocal agreement that allows up to 100 Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate...
U.S.-Mexico Cross Border Trucking Project Extended for Two More Years
Sep 1 2008 // In early August 2008, the U.S. Department of Transportation extended for two years the cross-border trucking demonstration project, a reciprocal agreement that allows up to 100 Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate...
Somali Pirates Hijack Thai Cargo Ship with 28 Crew
Aug 20 2008 // Somali pirates hijacked a Thai cargo ship with 28 crew members onboard, the International Maritime Bureau said Friday. Pirates attacked the Thor Star on Tuesday, senior analyst Cyrus Mody said, in the latest of a string of...
Road Danger: Thousands of Medically Unfit Commercial Drivers Still Trucking on U.S. Roads
Aug 4 2008 // Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States carry commercial driver’s licenses despite also qualifying for full federal disability payments, and some of those drivers have suffered...
