Latest Trucking Headlines
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Houthi Attacks in Red Sea Sink Two Cargo Ships, Leave Three Dead
Jul 9 2025 // Houthi attacks in the Red Sea left three crew members dead and sank two cargo vessels in a fresh wave of assaults by the Tehran-backed group along the crucial maritime trade route. Liberian-flagged MV Eternity C sank on...
Market/Coverages: Willis Launches $200M Cargo Facility for Rising Geopolitical Risks
Jul 8 2025 // Willis, a WTW business, has launched ‘Undercover,’ a new $200 million facility, combining coverage for a range of geopolitical exposures faced by cargo owners worldwide. Developed by Willis in a joint...
Markets/Coverages: Hiscox Offers Digital Cover for Small Cargo, Stock Throughput Risks
Jul 2 2025 // Hiscox, the Bermuda-based global specialist insurer, has launched a new Cargo API (application programming interface)-based solution, available through broker partners for underwriting small cargo and stock throughput...
Truckers Fear Job Loss as New English Language Rules Take Effect
Jul 1 2025 // At a trucking school in New Jersey, students are maneuvering 18-wheelers around traffic cones. Other future drivers look under hoods to perform safety checks, narrating as they examine steering hoses for cracks and...
Cargo Theft Up 27% in 2024 With Continued Rise Expected: NICB
Jun 26 2025 // Tariffs, enhanced technology to defeat law enforcement along with profitability of criminal enterprises, and geopolitical circumstances have led to an increased threat to the global supply chain, according to the National...
Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ships Promise Cleaner Transport but Could Be Hard to Insure
Jun 18 2025 // The commercial shipping industry is chasing a novel carbon-free propulsion technology as it pursues a lofty climate goal: nuclear power. Shipping accounts for more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions than Japan. The...
Inside the $455M Cargo Theft Surge – 4 Ways to Protect Your Fleet
Jun 6 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. Cargo theft reached an all-time high in 2024 – up 26% from 2023, with total reported losses of $455 million. The average estimated value per theft rose 7.7%...
Burning Cargo Ship Carrying 3,000 Vehicles Abandoned Off Alaska
Jun 4 2025 // The crew of a cargo ship carrying around 3,000 vehicles, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned it off the coast of Alaska after a fire broke out onboard, its operator Zodiac Maritime said on Wednesday. The 22 crew...
Cargo Ship That Ran Aground in Norway, Nearly Hitting a House, Is Towed Back to Sea
May 29 2025 // A cargo ship that ran aground in a Norwegian fjord and narrowly missed a house, was pulled back into open water and was being towed to a nearby harbor on Tuesday — five days after the spectacular accident. A tugboat...
Norwegian Man Awakes to Discover Grounded Cargo Ship Narrowly Missed His Home
May 27 2025 // A Norwegian man awoke to find that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord’s coast. Johan Helberg told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that he’d slept through...
Driverless Trucking Firm Aurora Puts Human Back in Driver’s Seat
May 20 2025 // Driverless vehicle developer Aurora Innovation Inc. is putting a human back in front of the wheel of big rigs operating in Texas, reversing course less than three weeks after the company began commercial autonomous service...
New Report Shows Rise in Cargo Theft, With Three States Leading the Way
May 19 2025 // Cargo theft across the U.S. and Canada continued to rise in 2024, with three states making up the bulk of losses, a new report shows. Multimodal hubs in California, Texas, as well as around Chicago, continue to be top...
New Report Shows Rise in Cargo Theft, With Three States Leading the Way
Apr 29 2025 // Cargo theft across the U.S. and Canada continued to rise in 2024, with three states making up the bulk of losses, a new report shows. Multimodal hubs in California, Texas, as well as around Chicago, continue to be top...
Midwest Trucking Company to Pay $45K Over Discrimination Disability Lawsuit
Apr 28 2025 // Mail Hauler Trucking, LLC., which delivers mail for the United States Postal Service in North Dakota and South Dakota, will pay $45,000 and provide other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
NTSB Faults ‘Failure’ in Training Before Deadly Newark Cargo Ship Fire
Apr 17 2025 // The Newark fire department’s lack of training and familiarity with marine firefighting during a deadly cargo ship fire at the East Coast’s largest port in July 2023 amounted to a “failure of...
9 Changes to FMCSA’s CSA Scoring: What you need to know
Apr 9 2025 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is revamping its Compliance, Safety and Accountability system to consolidate violations, simplify...
Trucking Firm Operator Who Lied About Safety History to Regulator Is Sentenced
Mar 28 2025 // The operator of an interstate trucking company who was convicted by a federal jury of making false statements to federal regulators about the company’s safety rating has been sentenced to 45 months in...
Explorers Discover Wreckage of Old Cargo Ship That Sank in Lake Superior Storm
Mar 14 2025 // Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ships to traverse the...
Trucker in Crash That Killed 7 Farmworkers in Oregon Sentenced to 48 Years
Mar 7 2025 // A truck driver who killed seven farmworkers when he crashed into a parked van on Interstate 5 in Oregon was sentenced on Tuesday to nearly 50 years in prison. Marion County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Wren sentenced Lincoln...
Hazardous Cargo Secured From Ship Grounded on Canada’s East Coast
Mar 4 2025 // The hazardous cargo and fuel on a ship that ran aground in Canada last month has been contained, according to the company that manages the vessel. MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. has also hired a salvage company and a...
