What to Do After a Truck Accident
What to do after a truck accident walks you through the critical steps your drivers and managers must take in those first minutes and hours after a crash, from securing the scene and protecting evidence to reporting claims and limiting your company’s liability. Use this guide to build a simple post-crash response plan.
Preventing a Nuclear Verdict in Trucking
Nuclear verdict prevention starts long before a crash. This guide exposes reptile-theory tactics, top carrier missteps, and the exact safety, compliance, and claims workflow that cuts severity. Deploy dashcams/telematics, tighten documentation, train supervisors, and harden post-crash evidence protocols. Lower settlement pressure, protect truck insurance premiums, and keep eight-figure awards off your balance sheet.
What Is Motor Truck Cargo Insurance? Coverage, Cost & Claims
Motor Truck Cargo Insurance protects the value of the freight you haul—covering damage, loss, or theft and helping you meet shipper contract requirements. Learn what’s covered (and what isn’t), how limits and deductibles work, common exclusions like unattended vehicles, and smart add-ons such as reefer breakdown and earned freight.
Dash Cameras for Trucks: Ultimate Guide
Discover how high-quality dash cameras for trucks enhance fleet safety, reduce liability and lower insurance costs. Learn key features to look for — from dual-facing lenses to cloud upload and AI alerts — and how they help fleet managers monitor driving behavior, document incidents and protect their bottom line.
Commercial Truck Insurance Rates: 2026 Forecast
Discover how commercial truck insurance rates are calculated and what drives your premiums. Learn key factors like cargo type, driving history, route length and state-specific risks that affect costs, plus actionable tips to help you reduce your rates and boost your fleet safety.
The Carmack Amendment: Ultimate Guide
Carmack Amendment is the national rulebook for interstate cargo claims. Learn who’s liable (carrier vs. broker), how strict liability works, key deadlines (nine months to file; 30/120-day responses), limiting exposure with released rates, and defenses like S, L & C—plus how contracts and BOC-3 filings can expand or control your risk.
Mastering FMCSA Insurance Requirements
Meeting FMCSA’s insurance requirements is nonnegotiable for motor carriers. You need proof of liability coverage on file, and the standard filings—such as BMC-91X—play a critical role. Without recognized insurance, your authority can be revoked, and your operations shut down swiftly.
Florida Tort Reform
Florida Tort Reform Changes Tort reform has finally arrived as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping tort reform bill into law on March 24, 2023 and it has an immediate effective date. Let’s take a brief look at these new changes and then explore how this should help trucking companies. The Florida Tort Reform bill,…
What is Reefer Breakdown?
Reefer breakdown is a trucking industry term that describes an event when the refrigerated unit on a “reefer trailer” (refrigerated trailer) breaks down. What causes that breakdown can be a number of different things including lack of fuel, electrical issues, low oil, a mechanical issue with the unit, etc. Reefer breakdown represents one of the…
Cargo Theft Prevention: Ultimate Guide
Cargo Theft Prevention is critical for trucking companies facing rising theft risks. By combining secure parking, high-security locks, GPS tracking, and driver awareness, fleets can reduce losses and protect reputations. Learn proven strategies to prevent cargo theft, improve compliance, and keep your drivers and shipments safe on the road.
No Celebrating Holiday Cargo Theft
Weekends are historically bad for cargo theft, but holiday weekends are notoriously awful. Thanksgiving weekend is historically a hotbed of cargo theft activity. Freightwatch International reported that last year’s holiday cargo thefts averaged about 3 per day, which is about a 27% increase compared to non-holiday weekends. Last year’s Thanksgiving weekend led to 18 reported…
3 Ways To Reduce Your Truck Insurance Costs
There are many ways to reduce your truck insurance premiums, but I wanted to provide you with a few tried and true ways that will help. With razor thin profit margins and your burning need to stay competitive in today’s logistics environment, you owe it to yourself to maximize your spending on insurance and risk…
Cargo Risk Tip-Don’t Get Left Out In The Cold-FSMA
Just having a box checked “reefer breakdown” with a limit and a deductible on a certificate of insurance doesn’t really mean everything that you think that it does. When I think of “reefer breakdown”, I define it like this: A mechanical or electrical breakdown of the refrigeration unit that is attached to a trailer. That,…
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