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Top 3 Tips for Understanding What Insurance You Need as a Trucker

AssuredPartners

While you're busy buying equipment, signing customer contracts, finding loadboards, and planning routes, don't overlook the crucial role insurance plays in safeguarding your livelihood and assets. Know the Basic Insurance Requirements As a trucker, it is essential to understand the basic insurance requirements mandated by law.

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Understanding insurance for logistics companies

Higginbotham

Insurance for logistics companies helps keep these risks under control. Although many thefts involve warehouses and trucks in parking lots, goods transported by rail are also vulnerable. Although the increase occurred in all types of vehicles, fatalities in crashes involving at least one large truck were up 13 percent.

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Driving is Dangerous

Florida Workers' Comp

In 2020, the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) noted that auto accidents continue to trouble us all: "from 2011 to 2016, while the frequency of all workers compensation (WC) claims continued to decrease, the frequency of MVAs increased in both WC and in the general population." However, an airborne cement truck is noteworthy.

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UPS Employee May Not Sue KY Retailer for Injuries Sustained at Latter’s Loading Dock

The Workcomp Writer

That Kohl’s decided to accomplish that part of its business through UPS, instead of its own trucks and drivers, did not matter. Background Houser worked as a truck driver for UPS. He had driven the UPS truck to a Kohl’s retail store in Paducah. After he arrived at a loading dock, he struggled to open the back door of his truck.

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Commercial Auto Insurance Rates Spiking

InterWest Insurance Services

Skyrocketing claims costs and higher accident rates are pressuring the commercial auto insurance market, as insurers impose increasingly larger rate hikes and more are pulling out of the market or restricting who they will cover. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau , there were 64,000 such theft claims in the U.S.

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Bobtail insurance explained

Higginbotham

If you drive a big rig, or if you manage a fleet that includes tractor-trailer equipment, you need to understand bobtail insurance. In this article, we’ll explain what bobtail insurance is, how it works and why bobtail insurance an essential form of auto liability coverage. What is a bobtail truck?

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Optimize invoice payment with fleet factoring solutions

WEX Inc.

Keeping up with this consumer demand would not be possible without trucking companies, as their services are necessary for maintaining the supply chain and keeping consumers satisfied. However, not all trucking companies have the short-term resources they need to stay afloat. How does fleet factoring work? Non-recourse factoring.