Latest Trucking Headlines
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FedEx Cargo Plane Makes Emergency Landing After Bird Strike and Engine Fire
Mar 2 2025 // A FedEx cargo plane made an emergency landing at a busy New Jersey airport on Saturday after a bird strike caused an engine fire that could be seen in the morning sky. The plane landed at Newark Liberty International...
Trump’s Threat to EV Trucking Rules Undermines Big-Rig Bets
Feb 26 2025 // Two years ago, Rudy Diaz made a gutsy bet. The 45-year-old owner of Hight Logistics, a trucking company that hauls containers from the bustling ports around Los Angeles, began adding some of the country’s first...
People Moves: Markel Taps Johnson From Travelers as Senior U/W, Transport and Logistics; Specialty MGA UK Hires 2 Energy Underwriters
Feb 25 2025 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Markel and Specialty MGA UK. A summary of these new hires follows here. Markel Taps Johnson From Travelers as Senior U/W, Transport and Logistics Markel,...
Cargo Theft Surges to Record Levels in 2024
Jan 23 2025 // 2024 saw record-breaking cargo theft activity across the United States and Canada, with 3,625 reported incidents representing a 27% increase from 2023, according to global data analytics and technology provider CargoNet, a...
Freight Train Collision in West Texas Kills 2 Union Pacific Employees
Dec 23 2024 // Two Union Pacific employees were killed and three people were injured when a freight train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed in a small West Texas city, authorities said Thursday. The train derailed around 5...
Cargo Theft Surges as Holiday Season Approaches, Verisk Says
Dec 23 2024 // Be on the lookout for Grinch-like characters hanging out at transportation hubs over the holidays. A CargoNet analysis of holiday-period theft data from the past five years shows a heightened risk during the Christmas and...
Trump Tariffs Could Intensify US Trucking Industry Slump, Experts Say
Dec 16 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on top trade partners China, Mexico and Canada would deal a blow to the $1.7 trillion U.S. transportation industry and worsen a nearly three-year trucking recession,...
What is Strategic Cargo Theft? – What’s Brewing Podcast (Episode 6)
Dec 10 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. In this episode, Peter Matthews, SVP of Commercial Truck, and Jared Fritts, Loss Control Specialist, tackle the issue of Strategic Cargo Theft – what it is,...
DHL Cargo Plane Crashes Near Vilnius Airport, Killing One
Nov 26 2024 // A DHL cargo plane flying from Germany to Lithuania crashed close to Vilnius Airport, killing a crew member and injuring three others, according to police. The Boeing 737-400, which took off from the eastern German city of...
Trucking Firm Owner Sentenced Over Crash That Killed 7 Bikers
Nov 25 2024 // The owner of a trucking company was sentenced Thursday to two months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for lying to investigators after one of his trucks was accused of causing a crash that killed seven...
People Moves: Markel Taps AEGIS London’s Pressman as Senior U/W, Marine Cargo; GC&C Names Chubb’s Selff as Head of Underwriting Asia
Nov 22 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Markel and Generali Global Corporate & Commercial. A summary of these new hires follows. Markel Taps AEGIS London’s Pressman as Senior...
Trucker Crashes Into Stopped Traffic in Michigan, Killing 4
Nov 5 2024 // WEBBERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A section of Interstate 96 in southeast Michigan remained closed Sunday after a semitruck crashed into more than a dozen vehicles overnight, killing 4 people and injuring 17 others, according to...
Russian Missile Hits Fourth Cargo Ship in Ukraine This Month
Oct 15 2024 // A Russian missile hit a fourth cargo ship in Ukraine this month, as the Kremlin ramps up its attacks on Kyiv’s trade infrastructure. A grain storage facility at Odesa port was attacked on Monday, killing one person...
Markets/Coverages: Hub Int’l Forms Partnership With Largest Trucking Broker in Mexico
Oct 2 2024 // Hub International Ltd. (HUB), the Chicago-based insurance broker, announced an exclusive referral and broker program partnership throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico with MAS Seguros, the largest trucking insurance...
Black Man Sues Iowa Trucking Company for Alleged Hair Discrimination
Oct 2 2024 // A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue activists have...
Sanctioned Tanker With LNG Cargo Passes via Suez Canal, Data Shows
Oct 1 2024 // The Pioneer tanker, sanctioned by the United States over its links to Russia-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG), has passed through the Suez Canal with an LNG cargo, LSEG data showed on Monday. The source of the LNG and...
OSHA Cites Company for Multiple Safety Violations Following Cargo Hold Fire in Ohio
Sep 30 2024 // Federal safety inspectors found a crew working aboard the Cuyahoga, a commercial iron ore vessel moored at the Port of Ashtabula, narrowly avoided disaster after a large fire erupted as they welded off paint in a cargo...
Cargo Carriers Fear Port Strike Will Paralyze Half of US Trade
Sep 30 2024 // The world’s top container carrier is urging customers to move US cargo through East and Gulf Coast ports before the planned start on Tuesday of a dockworker strike that threatens to paralyze as much as half the...
Low Mississippi River Water Levels Force Barge Companies to Cut Cargo
Sep 13 2024 // ST. LOUIS (AP) — The water level of the Mississippi River is unusually low for the third straight year, forcing barge companies to put limits on how much cargo they can carry and cutting into farm profits. It was just...
Unauthorized Passengers in Cargo Transportation: Risks and Considerations
Sep 9 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by IAT Insurance Group. In 2019, a woman died after a semi-truck hauling avocados swerved and struck a parked vehicle, attempting to avoid a road rage incident. The deceased woman...
