If your truck is in the shop because of an insurance claim you need to be able to continue driving revenue to your business. Your fixed expenses aren’t stopping just because your truck is in the shop. Your insurance, truck…
You own a trucking company. You have your $1,000,000 auto liability policy with a truck but you’re also leasing or renting a couple trucks through Enterprise and you selected to use their insurance. You say to yourself, “Great, all of…
Every few weeks I hear of a claim where a trucking company knowingly let an unlisted driver get behind the wheel of one of their trucks. These situations often lead to a claim, which are then in turn denied and…
California is an especially tough state for insurance for new trucking companies. The major players don’t allow for new ventures, which leaves very limited options. We have worked with a few insurance carriers to be able to provide custom options…
DBA stands for “Doing Business As”. This is a different name than your business’ legal name and cannot include “LLC, Inc, or similar suffixes in the title). One example of a DBA would be for Red Rose Insurance, LLC. We…
As you are starting your box truck company one of the more confusing parts is likely the insurance. Below you will see a survey of coverages your company may need. Auto Liability. FMCSA requires $750,000 in auto liability to be…
Your business’s greatest risk is likely not a five-alarm fire, but rather a cyber attack. 60% of small businesses go out of business in six months following a cyber attack and 43% of all cyber attacks are against small businesses.…
SAFER stands for Safety and Fitness Electronic Records and is effectively the public-facing option of FMCSA. In SAFER you can research anyone’s DOT records. The most useful tool within SAFER is the Company Snapshot. You can search by DOT, MC,…
If you are in the final stages of acquiring a truck, or are a week out from renting a truck, it is often a good idea to get insurance before you actually have a truck. With this you can start…
Trucking Insurance costs are continually increasing with the rise in claims. Those costs are pushed to the yearly insurance premiums for trucking companies. It’s hard to maintain profitability with hauling freight and the margins grow tighter every time the insurance…