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Channel 19

ELDs and safety: Wes Memphis weighs in

“One thing you come to learn around here is when there is the same highlighted handwritten memo on every table of the drivers’ room, in the company newsletter, on the shop bulletin board, even on the inner door of the bathroom stall, somebody done messed up good. …”

May 5, 2017

Business

Do you even skill, bro?

“Skilled” or “unskilled?”… “Beware the trappings of titles, they often only mean a difference in insurance premiums, and being a professional doesn’t require one.”

January 19, 2017

Business

Do not fold, spindle, mutilate or molest

In which a tree falls through the Parkers’ house and Wendy is told not to touch anything until the insurance guy shows up: “No. Please no. It’s a trigger, I can’t help it … The minute I’m told “not to touch” something, it becomes my life’s mission to touch that thing. ”

January 13, 2017

Business

Obamacare change ahead, but existing insurance system likely to hold through 2017

Bill Zenk of TrueNorth’s TrueChoices private insurance marketplace for owner-operators believes big change is unlikely before 2018, potentially affecting the penalty for tax year 2017. Eventually, he guesses, the individual mandate to carry insurance likely will be on the chopping block.

January 3, 2017

Business

Health-insurance exchanges open through Jan. for ‘Obamacare, round 4’

Affordable Care Act open enrollment is to purchase and change plans is open through January 31, 2017. The biggest issue this year include premium price increases and the need for many current policyholders to shop their plans due to the mass exodus of insurers from the exchanges.

November 7, 2016

Business

Progressive Insurance releases tool aimed to help bring more drivers into trucking

Progressive’s New Trucker’s Playbook walks potential truckers through the process of becoming a truck driver from getting a CDL to obtaining MC and USDOT numbers to getting the right insurance.

October 7, 2016

Business

Pay attention to these factors driving physical damage insurance costs for owner-operators

“Typically, the stated value of the vehicle is important, but the driving factor behind premiums is the MVR,” said Courtney Wilson, president of 1st Guard Insurance Co.

August 15, 2016

Voices

Voices on the issues in post-crash litigation following June cover story

Readers respond to the issues around post-crash litigation, including strategies for prevention in the event that the worst happens.

July 5, 2016

Business

How to dodge the ambulance chasers

Since the advent of CSA, high-dollar jury awards for truck accident victims have been growing. This means higher risk and insurance costs, especially for independents.

June 20, 2016

Business

Insurance is the devil

” It’s a necessary evil, and it’s forced upon us by law, so we put up with the incredibly weird questions and long wait times to talk to people who take our money into the black hole of insurance premiums and rarely give any of it back.” …

June 1, 2016

Voices

Caught on camera: Attempted insurance fraud?

The extreme-brake-check entries are growing in Overdrive’s Dashcam Central repository for reader-submitted and other videos of on-highway events, this one in a center lane on the George Washington Bridge into New York City.

May 13, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

Gorilla Safety’s ELD, potential for usage-based insurance

The Gorilla Safety ELD entered the market for such products last month, and is one of the current three such devices listed on FMCSA’s ELD registry.

May 10, 2016