All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2009 // The former owner of a Connecticut trucking company has been sentenced to six years in jail on manslaughter and insurance fraud charges for his role in a fiery truck crash at a major suburban intersection that left four...
Jun 25 2009 // The Dutch Defense Ministry said Somali pirates have released a hijacked cargo ship aboard which one crew member was fatally shot.The ministry said Dutch marines are escorting the MV Marathon to a safe port. It also said...
Jun 25 2009 // A South Florida truck driver has been awarded $14.6 million from an accident that left him paralyzed.A Broward Circuit Court judge ordered insurer National Casualty Co. to pay 64-year-old Derry Brown Jr. Jurors decided the...
Jun 25 2009 // The former owner of a Connecticut trucking company has been sentenced to six years in jail on manslaughter and insurance fraud charges for his role in a fiery truck crash at a major suburban intersection that left four...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Apr 20 2009 // 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 truck disappears from a storage lot and is found a week later, cargo gone and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...