All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 5 2023 // Parsyl, the Denver-based insurer of essential supply chains, announced the launch of its new Essential Consortium at Lloyd’s of London.The multi-year arrangement initially will bring $20 million in new capacity to...
Mar 16 2023 // U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday urged a federal investigation into safety practices of all seven major freight railroads, following the East Palestine, Ohio derailment of a Norfolk Southern Corp....
Mar 7 2023 // SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) – About 20 cars of a Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield Saturday evening, the second derailment of the company’s trains in Ohio in a month, officials said.But unlike...
Mar 2 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Cargo theft remains a prominent threat to the transportation industry. In one high-profile case in 2022, three Florida men stole approximately $9 million...
Feb 24 2023 // Ukraine will offer compensation for possible damages to civilian vessels entering its ports, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Friday, as Kyiv tries to boost exports that are vital for its war-hit...
Feb 22 2023 // Global shipping companies are exploring ways to boost safety in transporting cargoes as risks grow from fires erupting inside containers or in cars at sea, officials said on Wednesday.Shipping transports around 90% of...
Jan 30 2023 // LOUISVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Six people died in upstate New York when a freight truck and an express bus carrying more than a dozen people collided Saturday near the U.S.-Canada border, state police said.Three others were...
Jan 25 2023 // Sentry Insurance, a leading provider of commercial trucking insurance, has announced a telematics program with Motive that will give customers up to 5% on their Sentry premiums for sharing their electronic logging device...
Dec 9 2022 // Chubb Global Mkts Promotes O’Brien to Head of CargoChubb announced the appointment of Alex O’Brien as head of Cargo for Chubb Global Markets (CGM), the company’s London Market wholesale and specialty...
Dec 8 2022 // A Coast Guard investigation into the grounding in March of a cargo ship in the Chesapeake Bay faulted the pilot tasked with helping the ship navigate the waterway, saying he relied too much on one piece of equipment to...
Dec 5 2022 // A Southern California trucking company owner who ordered the illegal repair of a tanker that led to a deadly explosion was sentenced last week to 10 years in federal prison.Carl Bradley Johansson, 64, of Newport Beach also...
Dec 2 2022 // Meta Platforms Inc. unlawfully steered dozens of hiring ads from trucking companies and other advertisers to mostly one gender or age group, an advocacy group for female truckers alleged in a U.S. complaint on Thursday,...
Nov 22 2022 // The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Texas Interstate Express and PAC Express LLC related motor carriers located in the Houston area, to be an...
Nov 18 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Drug and alcohol violations have increased by 10.2% for truckers,[1] making it more important than ever for motor carriers to utilize the Federal Motor...
Nov 7 2022 // The demand for transportation services remains strong and experts believe that trend will continue throughout 2023. That’s good news for transportation insurance experts. At the same time, the trucking sector today...
Nov 2 2022 // Lloyd’s of London insurer Ascot is once again quoting on its cargo insurance facility for the Black Sea grain corridor, the facility’s lead underwriter said on Wednesday after Russia announced it would resume...
Nov 2 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Petroff Trucking Company, Inc., for an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act. The company has agreed to purchase and secure 15.5 wetland acres to...
Nov 2 2022 // Insurers are no longer offering new cargo insurance cover for shipments out of Ukraine through a U.N.-backed safe corridor after Russia suspended its participation, industry sources said on Tuesday.An export deal, agreed...
Oct 13 2022 // Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance’s Global Risk Solutions division, announced the launch of a new Lloyd’s facility for the London market.The Liberty Project Cargo Consortium...
Oct 7 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. For the last two-and-a-half years the entire nation has been tracking California Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which changed the definition of who is considered an...