All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 15 2018 // SafeWaters Underwriting Managers (SafeWaters) has appointed Kevin Kempf as vice president and head of cargo in the U.S. Kempf is based in Melville, N.Y.He joined SafeWaters on April 1, 2018, and brings knowledge of cargo...
May 3 2018 // North P&I Club has further strengthened its specialist cargo claims team with the appointment of David Richards as deputy director, Cargo. Richards, formerly a partner with Ince & Co and a Legal 500 recommended...
Apr 30 2018 // The owner of a California trucking school has pleaded guilty to conspiring with state employees to obtain driver’s licenses for students who failed or did not take driving tests.Mangal Gill of San Ramon, California...
Apr 26 2018 // A Florida man was sentenced to nine years in state prison for filing more than $1.2 million in false claims for refrigerated cargo purportedly spoiled in cross-country transport by his long-haul trucking companies based...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...