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How to Start a Hotshot Trucking Business

How to Start a Hotshot Trucking Business: A Step-by-Step Guide Starting a hotshot trucking business offers an exciting opportunity to enter the high-demand world of expedited freight. Hotshot trucking involves using a pickup truck and flatbed trailer to transport time-sensitive loads quickly. Given its minimal upfront costs compared to traditional freight trucking, it’s therefore an…

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Get Top Trucking Insurance Now

Make Sure You’re Covered with the Right Trucking Insurance! The open road is calling, and your trucking business is ready to roll! 🚛💨 But before you hit the gas and start making deliveries, it’s crucial to ensure that you’re fully protected with the right coverage. Trucking insurance isn’t just a formality—it’s the foundation of a…

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Business Insurance: California Business Interruption Coverage During COVID-19

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BUSINESS INSURANCE: California Business Interruption/Loss Of Income Insurance During COVID-19 Normal business interruption plans do not offer coverage regarding contagious diseases like those of COVID-19, and have not been actuarially assessed to do so, noted major insurer organizations in a report sent in to Congress members of California Thursday. The correspondence was sent in response…

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Aviation – Transportation Insurance: When Is The Report For Kobe Bryants Fatal Crash Expected?

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Aviation – Transportation Insurance: The helicopter pilot who crashed and killed Kobe Bryant and eight others was almost out of blinding clouds when he reportedly plunged and crashed into a hillside in Southern California. According to an investigation update released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board, Ara Zobayan had told air traffic control he was…

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Livery Insurance 101: Ride Sharing Platform Uber Wins Big Ruling In Brazilian High Labor Court

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Livery Insurance – Ride Sharing Insurance- Drivers Status The Brazilian High Labor Court ruled on Wednesday that there was no work arrangement between Uber and its drivers, contesting the driver of Sao Paulo. This is major news in the industry for livery insurance. Brasilia’s Federal judge ruled that Uber drivers are able to disconnect from the app…

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Trucking Insurance 101 – Chadwick Of Kelt Found Fraudulently Financing Commercial Trucking Premiums From Tepco

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Trucking Insurance – Insurance Premium Financing Fraud: In Spokane County Superior Court this week, Edward J. Chadwick, of Yakima, Wash., was charged with first-degree theft. Chadwick was an insurance producer, and owned a trucking insurance agency called Kelt, selling trucking insurance primarily to transport companies. He was indicted after an investigation by the Criminal Investigations Unit of Washington Insurance…

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Truck Drivers – New DOT Drug Screening Impositions Making Their Way Into Trucking

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Truck Drivers Drug Screening: In WASHINGTON, DC, truck drivers will soon face oral fluid monitoring for illegal substances under a new U.S. regulation. Health, and Human Services Agency the Department of Health and Human Services. The introduction of oral fluid specimens into the Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs emerges as discussions on developing…

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Best Trucking Insurance Tips – Livery Insurance: Insurance Loss Runs & How To Calculate Loss Ratio.

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Trucking Insurance – Livery Insurance: Loss History. What’s Loss Ratio? Loss Ratio (LR) of an Insured is the total actual paid insurance claims (including Claims expenses) on an insurance policy; compared to the actual total premium collected by the insurance carrier, for the same period. Normally LR is measured over a period of not less than…

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What’s Going On With AB5 In California (The Downfall Of Trucking, And Other Independent Contractors)

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Trucking Insurance – Livery Insurance: New Bill To Enforce Workers Comp Insurance. California’s attempt to reshape the “gig” economy encountered a major roadblock earlier this month when a federal court issued a temporary injunction prohibiting truck drivers from enforcing the state’s new laws, citing a dispute with federal law. The roadblock is by no means…

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California Assembly Bill 5

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Enforcing Workers Comp Insurance In CA An act to amend Section 3351 of, and to add Section 2750.3 to, the Labor Code, and to amend Sections 606.5 and 621 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to employment, and making an appropriation therefor. What Is The California Assembly Bill 5? The California Assembly Bill 5 was…

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