Latest Auto Headlines
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Vehicle Theft in California Down 48 Percent From Peak, Report Shows
Dec 16 2014 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau today released a historic look at vehicle theft in California that shows thefts dropped from a peak year in 1992 more than a 48 percent to 2013. California has the distinction of being...
Sen. Collins Finds Route to Help Trucking Industry
Dec 15 2014 // For the second time in three years, the trucking industry has found a friend in Senator Susan Collins. The Maine Republican got a rider attached to the spending bill approved over the weekend so truckers will no longer...
Kentucky Speeds Up Commercial Vehicle Inspection System
Dec 10 2014 // A regional organization has given an award to Kentucky’s technological screening program for large commercial trucks. The Intelligent Transportation Society of the Midwest gave the 2014 Project of the Year award to...
Congress Budget Deal Suspends Trucker Rest Rule
Dec 10 2014 // Congress is poised to roll back safety rules aimed at ensuring truck drivers get enough rest, ignoring the pleas of consumer activists and U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. The provision, added to budget...
In Florida, 3 Dead After Vehicle Strikes, Kills Black Bear
Dec 9 2014 // After a woman’s vehicle struck and killed a black bear on a road in the Florida Everglades, three others from another vehicle who tried to help the woman were then killed by a third vehicle. Several others were...
North Carolina Triad Reports 14 Car Deaths in 9 Days
Dec 8 2014 // Law enforcement officials in the Triad area of North Carolina are urging motorists to drive safely after 14 people were killed in traffic accidents during a nine-day stretch in November. The Winston-Salem Journal reported...
Transportation Chief Opposes Trucker Fatigue Rule Delay in Budget
Dec 8 2014 // Congress is considering adding to a year-end budget deal a provision to roll back safety rules aimed at ensuring truck drivers get enough rest, a measure U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said should be...
Vehicle Collision in Texas Panhandle Kills 5
Dec 2 2014 // Five people have been killed, including four members of a New Mexico family, in a late-night collision on a rural road in the Texas Panhandle. Texas Department of Public Safety Senior Trooper Chris Ray says 30-year-old...
Global Car Insurers Offer Discounts – If They Can Monitor Driving Data
Dec 2 2014 // Insurance companies around the world are promising lower rates on car coverage. The catch is they want to install the equivalent of an airplane’s black box to track how and where you drive. Smartphone applications...
Japan Transport Ministry Weighs Additional Air Bag Recalls
Dec 2 2014 // Japan’s investigation into dangerous air bags is leading to a remote scrapyard in the central Gifu prefecture, where the explosion of a car model not included in current recalls suggests automakers may have to yet...
Texas Company Turns Trucks into Wildfire Fighters
Dec 1 2014 // Could icemakers be next? Most of the options on the brush fire trucks made at Texas-based Steele Fire Apparatus fall into the category of things you might expect. Light towers, electrical inverters, pumps for hydraulic...
Declarations
Dec 1 2014 // No Hesitation “If there is real evidence or a directive from (the Federal Highway Administration) that says the ET-Plus needs to be replaced, make no mistake — we will not shy away from that directive and we...
2014 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed
Dec 1 2014 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by the companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11...
Detroit Mulling City-Sponsored Auto Insurance
Dec 1 2014 // Detroit, Mich.’s, City Council approved a contract for a firm to study whether it’s feasible to create a city-sponsored auto insurance company. Mayor Mike Duggan’s office says the $75,000 contract for...
Erie Insurance Introduces Auto Rideshare Cover in Indiana, Illinois
Dec 1 2014 // Erie Insurance announced it has launched auto insurance coverage to protect drivers who use ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft in two Midwestern states. Erie’s new coverage, currently available in Indiana and...
State Farm Raising Auto Insurance Rates in Louisiana
Dec 1 2014 // State Farm is increasing auto insurance premiums in Louisiana for liability, collision and comprehensive coverage by a statewide average of 3.7 percent. The auto rate increase will generate $40.4 million annually from...
California Auto Insurance Fraud Sweep Nets Nearly 200
Dec 1 2014 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance assisted by local district attorneys and local law enforcement spent a week in mid-November serving arrest warrants in 22 counties where more than 200 felony counts...
Liberty, Texas, Posting Auto Theft Warning Signs from Insurance Council
Nov 25 2014 // Police officers in Liberty, Texas, will be putting up crime prevention signs in their city this week to help motorists prevent auto thefts and burglaries. Black Friday and the holiday shopping season is a great time for...
Texas Woman Acquitted in Fiancé’s Death; GM Ignition-Switch Blamed
Nov 25 2014 // A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the death of her fiancé in a 2004 accident involving a since-recalled General Motors Saturn Ion won a reversal of her conviction. Candice Anderson, who was...
Fasten Your Seatbelts, Flying Cars Could Take-Off Within 3 Years
Nov 24 2014 // The first time Carl Dietrich brought his flying-car concept to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he had only a video to show the aviation geeks who wandered by...
