Latest Trucking Headlines
All the headlines from our Trucking Topic Page, ordered by recency.
U.S. to Investigate Growing Length of Freight Trains as Threat to Safety
Dec 7 2017 // The investigative arm of the U.S. Congress is launching a probe into the safety of increasingly long freight trains being operated by CSX Corp, Union Pacific Corp. and other major U.S. railroads to boost profitability, the...
Tesla Debuts 500-Mile Electric Heavy Duty Truck
Nov 17 2017 // Tesla Inc. upstaged its own debut of an electric heavy duty truck on Thursday when a red Roadster pulled out of the big rig’s trailer and Chief Executive Elon Musk said the new $200,000 sports car would be the...
Georgia College Expanding Commercial Truck Driver Training Program
Nov 16 2017 // A Georgia college is expanding its training program for commercial truck drivers as the U.S. faces a national trucker shortage. WALB-TV reports Albany Technical College plans to increase the number of seats in its...
InsuranceHub Expands Transportation Coverage to Additional Trucking Classes
Nov 9 2017 // InsuranceHub (formerly Lloyd Pro Group Agency) has expanded its Transportation Division to also cover long haul trucking, dump trucks and more. The division launched in 2016 with a focus on tow trucks. Some of the products...
Tough Road for Trucking Insurance Specialists
Nov 7 2017 // Trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy, representing 70.6 percent of all domestic freight transportation tonnage and $676 billion, or 79.8 percent,of transportation revenues in the country. Despite the...
BHSI Introduces Motor Truck Cargo Legal Liability Insurance in Canada
Oct 19 2017 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced it has expanded its inland marine product line in Canada with the launch of its Motor Truck Cargo Legal Liability policy, a new product that protects against the...
China Delivery Firm ZTO Joins Consortium to Set Up Logistics Insurer – to Fill Coverage Gap
Oct 18 2017 // ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc., a Shanghai, China-based express delivery company, announced it has joined a seven-member consortium of its peers to set up a logistics insurer. ZTO said the insurer is being launched to fill the...
Feds Shut Down Iowa Trucking Company Tied to Trafficking Deaths
Oct 13 2017 // Federal safety regulators have shut down a troubled Iowa trucking company that owned the semitrailer involved in a human trafficking case in which 10 immigrants died in Texas. Pyle Transportation was placed under an...
Freight Train Derails in Georgia, Crashes Into Home
Oct 9 2017 // Authorities say a freight train derailed and crashed into a home in Atlanta, knocking it askew and injuring a man. Atlanta Fire Rescue officials said in a brief statement that “multiple cars” had derailed about...
Brokers Keep Trucking Market Motoring Despite Insurer Exits
Sep 18 2017 // Trucking serves as a barometer of the U.S. economy, representing 70.6 percent of all domestic freight transportation tonnage and $676 billion, or 79.8 percent,of transportation revenues in the country. Despite the...
Trucking Industry Backs Bills Easing Self-Driving Vehicle Regulation
Sep 14 2017 // A U.S. trucking trade group and truck maker Navistar International Corp. urged a U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday to include self-driving commercial trucks in proposed legislation intended to speed autonomous vehicles to...
Rethinking Freight Flood Risk Management After Hurricane Harvey
Sep 8 2017 // A week before Hurricane Harvey walloped Houston, workers for Union Pacific Corp. began moving rail cars out of the railroad’s Englewood switching yard near downtown and brought in enough generators to fill 70 tractor...
Family Settles Suit Against Perdue, Trucking Firm Over Virginia Crash
Aug 24 2017 // A family has settled a lawsuit against Perdue Farms and a trucking company over the death of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy whose tractor was struck by a semi-truck carrying chicken. The Virginian-Pilot reported...
Tesla Developing Self-Driving Long Haul, Electric Truck
Aug 15 2017 // Tesla Inc. is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in “platoons” that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype, according to an...
Evacuations Remain in Effect After Pennsylvania Freight Train Derailment
Aug 4 2017 // Evacuations remain in effect for residents of a small Pennsylvania town following a freight train derailment. CSX says it’s unclear when residents will be able to return to their homes in Hyndman, Penn., about 100...
Freight Train Cars Burning After Derailment in Pennsylvania, Residents Flee
Aug 3 2017 // Rail cars carrying gas and sulfur on a CSX Corp freight train skidded off the tracks and burst into flames on Wednesday in a small Pennsylvania town, forcing hundreds of residents to flee their homes as firefighters fought...
Trucking Company Settles Fatal South Carolina Crash for $11M
Aug 1 2017 // A trucking company has agreed to pay $11 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a South Carolina trucker who burned to death last year after colliding with a gasoline tanker that was blocking a rural highway in...
Ironshore’s Pembroke Agency Launches Project Cargo Consortium for Lloyd’s China Platform
Jul 27 2017 // Ironshore’s Pembroke Managing Agency Ltd. has launched a Project Cargo Consortium to serve the Lloyd’s China platform, offering capacity limits of up to US$178 million. Pembroke Lloyd’s Syndicate 4000...
Truck Speeding Fix Among Safety Rules Halted by Trump Anti-Regulation Order
Jul 7 2017 // Years of pleas from parents whose son was killed by a speeding tractor-trailer, buy-in from some truckers and the promise of fewer highway deaths convinced U.S. officials in September to propose requiring speed-limiting...
CNA Hardy Names Neon’s Marriott as Head of Cargo, Lloyd’s
Jun 27 2017 // CNA Hardy, a specialist commercial insurance provider for clients within the Lloyd’s and company markets, announced the appointment of Alistair Marriott as head of Cargo for its Lloyd’s platform. Reporting to...
