Fleetwood Transportation Closed the Doors Yet another trucking company has closed their doors. Fleetwood Transportation out of Diboll, Texas closed their doors on December 31st. Fleetwood ran just over 250 trucks and hauled wood, building materials and oil field equipment. According to their chairman of the board the primary reason Fleetwood closed their doors was […]

Insurance rates could go up over 20% next year. This is bad news for the transportation industry but especially bad news for smaller carriers. A 20% jump in insurance rates would be one of if not the largest single year jump in insurance rates ever. It is unlikely that small carriers already struggling in an […]

Are Higher Insurance Rates Coming That is probably a ridiculous question considering higher insurance rates have been the norm in the trucking industry for years. But, are they going to continue to go up at an exponential rate? Recently many of the top commercial auto liability insurance companies had a conference where they discussed the […]