Latest Trucking Headlines

All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.

AIA Says Newly Revised Federal Hours-Of-Service for Truckers Don’t Go Far Enough

Apr 25 2003 // New revisions to the federal rules that govern how long truckers can drive at one stretch and remain on-duty fall short from a public safety perspective, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA).The...

Commercial Lines Auto: A Sleeping Giant Awakens

Feb 10 2003 // The commercial lines auto market used to be a steady line of business, stirred up occasionally by a Department of Transportation regulatory change or fallout from personal auto regulatory issues. Like other lines, it was...

Commercial Lines Auto: A Sleeping Giant Awakens

Feb 10 2003 // The commercial lines auto market used to be a steady line of business, stirred up occasionally by a Department of Transportation regulatory change or fallout from personal auto regulatory issues. Like other lines, it was...

Truckers Occupational Accident

Jan 30 2003 // Nuts & Bolts: Baldwin Sadler Corporation has a Truckers Occupational Accident program that provides truck owner-operators who are under lease to a motor carrier, the opportunity to purchase occupational accident and...

Fireman’s Fund McGee Unveiled Nationwide with New E-solution for Managing Ocean Cargo Insurance

Jan 8 2003 // Fireman’s Fund McGee Marine Underwriters is making FOCUS(SM), its new e-solution for managing ocean cargo insurance, available to agents/brokers and their clients on a nationwide basis.The FOCUS Solution, which...

Truckers Occupational Accident

Dec 19 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Baldwin Sadler Corporation has a new Truckers Occupational Accident Program. It provides truck owner-operators, who are under lease to a motor carrier, the opportunity to purchase occupational accident...

Texas Man Indicted in Trucking, Fireworks Case

Dec 9 2002 // A Travis County, Texas grand jury indicted John William Tesseyman III of Tyler for fraudulent insurance activities that may have left dozens of petroleum product truckers and fireworks display companies without the...

Baldwin Sadler Corp. Unveils New Truckers Occupational Accident Program

Nov 25 2002 // Baldwin Sadler Corporation (www.baldwinsadler.com) has unveiled a new truckers occupational accident program. The program coverage provides truck owner-operators, who are under lease to a motor carrier, the opportunity to...

CANCELLED INSURANCE WOES LEAD TO TRUCKING COMPANY’S DOWNFALL

Sep 30 2002 // Consolidated Freightways Corp., one of the nation’s largest trucking firms, is shutting down its U.S. operations immediately and moving to liquidate the business, according to the Los Angeles Times. Headquartered in...

Cancelled Insurance Woes Lead to Trucking Company’s Downfall

Sep 6 2002 // Consolidated Freightways Corp., one of the nation’s largest trucking firms, is shutting down its U.S. operations immediately and moving to liquidate the business, according to the Los Angeles Times. Headquartered in...

Chubb Recommends Stronger Cargo Security Plans for Businesses

Sep 3 2002 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies is advising its business clients to install cargo security plans to cover their entire supply chains to reduce exposures to terrorism risks.“Not a single company can afford to...

New Market: Motor Truck Cargo

Jul 25 2002 // Cascade/Amstar is offering a motor truck cargo program. Gas haulers are okay, no containers, no target items and no hazardous items. Call for appointment. Policy limits of $150,000, with deductibles starting at $500....

Motor Truck Cargo

Jul 22 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: Cascade/Amstar is offering a motor truck cargo program. Gas haulers are okay, no containers, no target items and no hazardous items. Call for appointment.Dollars: Policy limits of $150,000. Deductibles...

NAFTA Officials move in on Final Details Prior to Border Crossing Openings

Jun 3 2002 // Transportation officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States, as well as insurance and trucking representatives from those countries, met this week to review final safety, implementation and insurance concerns before...

Home Healthcare-PL; Truck Physical Damage and Cargo

May 27 2002 // Nuts & Bolts: APG Insurance Services is offering a program for home healthcare- professional liability and truck physical damage and cargo.Dollars: Minimum premiums of $1,000. Carrier: RatedStates Available:...

The Ocean Marine Market: A Unique Animal

Feb 25 2002 // Like life itself, insurance began in the ocean, eventually spawning the various land-based descendants we’ve come to know. While those terrestrial variants-auto, homeowners, commercial liability, among others-now...

The Ocean Marine Market: A Unique Animal

Feb 25 2002 // Like life itself, insurance began in the ocean, eventually spawning like the varius land-based descendents we’ve come to know. While those terrestrial variants-auto, homeowners, commercial liability, among others-now...

Commercial Auto Agents: Between a Rock and a Hard Market

Feb 11 2002 // The cyclical ups and downs of the multisegmented arena referred to collectively as commercial auto are nothing new. Though the years referred to as “soft” and “hard” vary in both length and...

Before & NAFTA: Open Borders, Long Term Effects on Long-Haul Trucking

Feb 11 2002 // Now that Congress and the Bush administration have struck a deal to pave the way for NAFTA trucking provisions—which the U.S. had been found to be violating for most of last year—the task of actually implementing these...

Building Profitability into the Commercial Auto Market

Feb 11 2002 // Like most property and casualty insurance lines, the commercial auto insurance market has witnessed rate increases over the past year and expects to see more. And, as in other lines, underwriters are scrutinizing accounts...