Pre-inspections are a critical step in the routine of any truck driver. Not only do they help you catch any problems in the cargo or any insecure parts, they help you keep your vehicle compliant after hard days on the road. Keeping your commercial truck compliant with CSVA standards is one of the best ways to keep your semi truck insurance premiums low: not only […]
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Three Reasons to Take a Look at Your Insurance Policy Before Winter
Liability insurance is one of the most important protections you can have for your trucking business: it protects your customers’ cargo in the event of an accident, it helps keep your business afloat in the event of a collision with a third party, and it can even make new contracts available to your company if you have the right insurance limits. But physical damage insurance […]
Commercial Truck Driving : How to Reduce the Risk of Injury
Truck driving is one of the most injury-prone jobs in the United States because it involves both several hours of prolonged sitting every day and abrupt transitions into sudden movement. These injuries not only put your long-term health at risk and can even prevent you from driving for a time, they can risk increasing your health insurance. Here’s how to stay safely moving on the […]
What Does Physical Damage Insurance Include?
Even though insurance is usually broken down into different types such as ‘home insurance,’ ‘car insurance,’ or even ‘health insurance,’ each plan really incorporates multiple different areas of coverage, especially when it comes to business. While this can help you have an insurance plan that is specifically tailored to your trucking business and takes into account your insurance needs, it also means it can be […]
Keep Your Commercial Trucking Insurance Low by Avoiding the Most Common CSA Violations
In just a few months, federal inspection agencies are going to start monitoring truckers’ adherence to daily drive time limits through electronic sensors. While the enforcement and preparation for this mandate has and will continue to be a challenge, the end goal of making roads safer for both truckers and drivers in passenger vehicles is important. Not only do trucking regulations save lives, adhering to […]
How to Avoid a Collision and a Florida Rig Insurance Claim
While defensive driving reduces your risk of getting into an accident and filing a Florida rig insurance claim, it won’t necessarily protect you from the unpredictable actions of the motorists around you. A distracted driver or perhaps a car having a tire blowout could suddenly veer in front of you. These types of road emergencies require quick action and what you do next will determine […]
Five More Months Until Proposed Deadline of Mandated Login for All Drivers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration released a federal mandate requiring all truck drivers to electronically document driving hours, but so far the administration has not released a plan on that requirement will be monitored. There are fewer than five months until the deadline for all truckers to switch from paper to electronics, and the mandate is supposed to go into effect and be enforced […]
Three Tips for Lowering Your Semi-Truck Insurance Rates
If you’re a new owner operator, you might be looking at an annual bill of between ten and sixteen thousand dollars. Gaining experience and keeping your driving record clean could help it fall between nine and twelve thousand dollars, but that still leaves you with a large bill. While a good driving record with few claims is the best way to keep your insurance low […]
Rig Insurance Florida: The Wrong Way for Truckers to Lose Weight
Obesity adversely affects health in many ways. It causes stroke, high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, heart disease, and multiple types of cancer. If you’re not technically obese but are packing a good amount of excess weight, it can still cause many of the above problems. A number of these problems, such as high blood pressure or […]
Commercial or Owner Operator Truck Insurance Florida: 2 of the Most Notable Heavy Hauls
One of the most fascinating types of commercial trucking is heavy hauling. Most big objects, such as multistory buildings, are built on-site. However, the outdoors isn’t a suitable environment for building other big things such as large machines or specialized structures. They’re built indoors at point A, and then transported to point B via heavy hauler trucking. Many of the biggest of these operations are logistical masterpieces. […]