All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2007 // The demand for freight transportation by rail has grown steadily in recent years after a prolonged period of excess capacity. The increased demand was fueled by a generally growing U.S. economy, expanding imports from...
May 18 2007 // A judge in Little Rock, Ark., has granted class status in a federal lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in which the company is accused of discriminating against black applicants for jobs driving Wal-Mart trucks.In his...
Apr 23 2007 // 350The number of fire code violations found in The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s review of fire inspection records for 100 Cleveland, Ohio, schools over a four-year period, according to the Associated Press. Fire...
Apr 10 2007 // A long-haul trucker from Janesville, Wis., won Great American Insurance Group’s BIG RIG GIVEAWAY at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) on March 24 in Louisville, Ky., the company announced.Bruce Doering’s...
Mar 26 2007 // Specialty niche offers multi-modal transport and multi-insurance coverage concernsThey’re more difficult to handle, but the cargo carriers are aware of the risks,” said Ben Armistead, chairman of Greenwich...
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...
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...
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 acted...
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...
Jan 28 2007 // Judge criticizes state Workers’ Compensation Commission10 Accused of insurance fraud, La. police officer resigns Change in accident report at issue10 La. Citizens gets nod to raise ratesStatewide average commercial...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management LiabilityNew P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically for...
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...
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...
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....