Latest Trucking Headlines
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UPS Freight to Pay $75K to Resolve Kansas Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
Jul 31 2020 // UPS Freight will pay $75,000 to resolve a three-year old federal lawsuit over disability discrimination at its service center in Kansas City, Kansas, federal authorities said. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
RB Jones Marine Adds Ocean Cargo Product, Hires Great American’s Gambino
Jul 30 2020 // RB Jones Marine, a business unit of H.W. Kaufman Group that focuses on the commercial marine and excess energy space, has launched an Ocean Cargo Stock Throughput Product in partnership with Atain Insurance Companies. RB...
Removal of Wrecked Cargo Ship in Georgia Port Stalled by Virus, Hurricane Season
Jul 28 2020 // Efforts to cut apart and remove a capsized cargo ship off the Georgia coast are being delayed for more than two months because of hurricane season and challenges posed by the coronavirus, project leaders said Friday. Those...
Coronavirus Delays Capsized Cargo Ship Removal in Georgia
Jul 20 2020 // Coronavirus infections among the salvage crew are delaying plans to cut apart and remove a hulking cargo ship that capsized off the coast of Georgia 10 months ago. Officials had hoped to start slicing the South Korean...
Wisconsin Worker Struck by Commercial Truck in Construction Zone Dies
Jul 15 2020 // A construction worker was struck and killed by a commercial truck along a highway in Wisconsin’s Columbia County, according to sheriff’s officials. The 29-year-old man was working in a construction zone on...
Safety Probe Cites Mistakes by First Officer, Pilot in 2019 Amazon Cargo Plane Crash
Jul 15 2020 // The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) cited cockpit mistakes by the first officer and pilot in a February 2019 fatal crash of an Atlas Air cargo plane. The Atlas Air Boeing 767 jet transporting cargo for...
Crews Removing Capsized Cargo Ship in Georgia Sidelined by COVID Infections
Jul 14 2020 // Coronavirus infections among the salvage crew are delaying plans to cut apart and remove a hulking cargo ship that capsized off the coast of Georgia 10 months ago. Officials had hoped to start slicing the South Korean...
Brit Global Specialty USA Transfers Renewal Rights for Cargo Business to Falvey Cargo
Jun 29 2020 // Brit Global Specialty USA will transfer the renewal rights for its cargo business to Falvey Cargo Underwriting, effective July 2. As part of the deal, Will Frohne and Yasu Saegusa will move from Brit to Falvey Cargo as...
Fidelis, Aon and Marsh Develop Marine Cargo Clause Aiming to Combat Modern Slavery
Jun 22 2020 // A group of brokers and insurers in the London market has come together to announce a new approach to keeping the products of modern slavery out of the export supply chain. Fidelis, Aon and Marsh have developed a clause...
Great American Group Promotes Smith to Trucking Division President
Jun 10 2020 // Great American Insurance Group in Cincinnati, Ohio, has promoted Randal M. Smith to divisional president within its Trucking Division. Smith first joined Great American in 1992. After leaving the company to co-founded,...
Reliance Partners Promotes Cannon to VP of Freight Brokerage Division
Jun 2 2020 // Reliance Partners (Reliance), a privately-held commercial insurance agency for the transportation and logistics industry, has promoted Jamie Cannon to vice president of the 3PL division. Cannon will lead Reliance’s...
Coronavirus Cluster Found in Crew of Freight Cargo Ship in Australia
May 27 2020 // A coronavirus cluster was detected Tuesday on a freight ship berthed in the Australian west coast port of Fremantle, raising questions about why local authorities weren’t alerted to the danger. Six of 48 crew members...
Trump Administration Rule Changes Allow Trucker Work Day of 14 Hours
May 15 2020 // The U.S. Transportation Department on Thursday published new rules for truck drivers that will allow short-haul drivers to work a longer day and revising rules for longer trips, saying the changes will save the industry...
Texas’ Paramount GA Launches Online Platform for Transportation Risks
May 12 2020 // Tyler, Texas-based Paramount General Agency, a licensed program administrator with a focus on the long-haul trucking industry, has launched an online platform offering a multi-line suite of insurance products for its...
Indiana Trucking Insurer, Protective, Looking at Contingent Sale Offer
May 12 2020 // Carmel, Indiana-based Protective Insurance Corp. (Protective) reported that a special committee of independent directors has been formed to evaluate a contingent sale agreement offered by certain Protective shareholders...
Supply Chain Problems Move from China to U.S. and Other Nations
Mar 23 2020 // Freight carriers are struggling to deliver goods by land, sea or air as the coronavirus pandemic forces Western governments to impose lockdowns, threatening supplies of vital products including medicines into the most...
Western Supply Chains Begin to Buckle on Expanding Coronavirus Lockdowns
Mar 23 2020 // Freight carriers are struggling to deliver goods by land, sea or air as the coronavirus pandemic forces Western governments to impose lockdowns, threatening supplies of vital products including medicines into the most...
Trucking Can Be Deadly. And Not Just For Truckers.: Viewpoint
Feb 28 2020 // Of the major industries for which the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported workplace fatality rates for 2018, truck transportation was the most dangerous, with 28 deaths per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers. To be sure,...
Salvage Firm Mum on Environmental Impact of Plan for Overturned Georgia Cargo Ship
Feb 27 2020 // Officials for a salvage company suing to halt demolition of an overturned cargo ship on the Georgia coast appeared to back away Tuesday from claims that sawing the vessel into enormous chunks would cause an...
Salvage Firm Wants Judge to Halt Removal of Capsized Cargo Ship in Georgia
Feb 19 2020 // A maritime salvage company is asking a federal judge to stop the Coast Guard and a rival firm from carrying out their plans to remove a cargo ship that overturned five months ago on the Georgia coast. The multiagency team...
