Flatbed Insurance: Everything You Need to Know Before Hitting the Road

Flatbed Insurance: Everything You Need to Know Before Hitting the Road

Flatbed trucks are often considered the workhorses of the commercial trucking industry. From construction and transportation to logistics and agriculture, flatbed trucks can be found on every road throughout the country. What sets them apart is their distinctive open bed design, which allows for the easy loading and transport of oversized, irregularly shaped, or bulky…

Understanding Cargo Insurance: What Every Truck Driver Should Know?

Understanding Cargo Insurance: What Every Truck Driver Should Know?

No matter the size of your trucking company, the key goal is to ‘maintain the safety of cargo during haul’ and earn big profits. However, the route to accomplish this objective is not smooth sailing. Here, understanding cargo insurance and how it safeguards your trucking and freight is vital! In the world of trucking, it…

Green Trucking: Environmental Benefits and Insurance Considerations

Green Trucking: Environmental Benefits and Insurance Considerations

The purpose of this blog is to reflect on the growing trend of implementing environmentally friendly practices in the American trucking industry. Also, how adopting green trucking is playing a key role in shaping the future of the logistics and insurance sector. Let’s dive into them. A Glimpse on Green Trucking GHG Emissions and its…

How Weather Conditions Affect Truck Insurance: Navigating Rain, Snow, and More

How Weather Conditions Affect Truck Insurance: Navigating Rain, Snow, and More

Weather conditions affect your truck insurance premiums.  How? Learn how risky weather conditions impact your commercial truck insurance and what you can do about it! Different weather conditions are responsible for 25% of truck delays. Out of 5,891,000 vehicle crashes, nearly 1,235,000 are weather-related.  While some weather gives plentiful warnings and allows truckers to take…

Commercial Truck Maintenance Checklist: A Comprehensive Guide

Commercial Truck Maintenance Checklist: A Comprehensive Guide

No matter what number or size of fleet you own, investing in every vehicle’s routine maintenance is crucial to extending its longevity. Here, keeping a commercial truck maintenance checklist is more than important. How? keep reading on and get your answers! In the trucking business, the dependency on commercial trucks is huge. You get all…

Types of Commercial Auto Insurance Filings

Types of Commercial Auto Insurance Filings

As a trucker, you have a good deal of legal responsibilities to take care of. As trucking demands you more on the road, it can be difficult to remember and sort through all the requisites many times.  Don’t worry, we have jotted down both federal and state-level commercial auto insurance filing requirements in this post….

What are the biggest risks facing the cargo industry? How To Mitigate Them?

What are the biggest risks facing the cargo industry? How To Mitigate Them?

The logistics industry plays a crucial role in facilitating the trade from manufacturer to middleman to end user and guaranteeing the success of a company’s operations.  However, the ever-changing political and government regulations, environmental issues, rising fuel prices, and unforeseen calamities like COVID-19 or the International War have increased the challenges for freight forwarders in…

American Trucking Industry – Statistics and Facts You Should Know

American Trucking Industry – Statistics and Facts You Should Know

Did you know that the $940.8 billion revenue from trucking is responsible for nearly 80.7% of the nation’s freight by weight? Key Takeaways Well, this is just one incredible statistic about the American trucking industry. There are more. To know about them, keep reading this blog, as we will look deeper at the US trucking…