Insurance, Liability, and other dissolved barriers to entry in Trucking with Rob Carpenter
About this episode
The episode discusses insurance and liability issues in the trucking industry with expert Rob Carpenter.
Voice Of GO(r)D welcomes back to the show Mr Rob Carpenter , trucker, consultant, software developer, expert witness, and industry researcher and reporter, amongst so many other hats he wears. A question I am often asked by friends and followers is “How do these small companies employing people with no experience and no training in the trucking industry get insurance?” Rob has delved into that question, and has written a series of articles for his own Substack, The Tea , as well as on Twitter/X, and over at FreightWaves, and joins the show to tell us what is going on here. His work is so deep and detailed and explains so much of what is going on that he has had several meetings with FMCSA head Derek Barrs and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The first of a seven part series by Rob looking into the insurance side of the equation can be read at FreightWaves, and they are all worth your time. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-dumping-ground-insuring-americas-most-dangerous-truckers-no-questions-asked Rob’s writings have been so revealing about the dysfunction in the insurance market that various entities have asked FreightWaves to take his articles down. Clearly he is over…
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