All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Feb 11 2002 // Staying one step ahead of criminals is a challenge for both the companies that transport cargo and the insurers who provide coverage for them. As the criminal gets smarter and comes up with new ways to steal,...
Feb 11 2002 // Oh, down in Mexico. I never really been so I don’t really know….Actually I have been to Mexico, and loved it. But that line from the James Taylor song, “Mexico,” has been swirling around in my head,...
Jan 23 2002 // Minnesota’s trucking firms have been hit hard with insurance rate increases according to results of a joint survey conducted by the Minnesota Trucking Association (MTA) and the American Trucking Associations...
Jan 17 2002 // CNA has launched a new, enhanced version of OMMni.com, the interactive and fully automated cargo insurance system which is accessible over the Internet to all CNA’s ocean cargo customers worldwide.Available free of...
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the FutureThis is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth, for...