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Obamacare is affecting health insurance rates, but I have not heard anything about it affecting truck insurance rates. While some will be tempted to get political in this thread about Obamacare, let's try to keep the focus on truck insurance. Health insurance for expediters merits a topic of its...

Diane and I are in a 40' straight-truck. Checking our insurance costs, we see no change in the last year in unladen liability and work accident insurance. Physical damage insurance went up 4.3 percent.

Mention has been made by expediters in a couple of threads that their insurance costs are rising, and by a lot in come cases. I thought it might be informative if expediters share what is going on with their truck and work accident insurance in a thread on that topic. What are you seeing with...

I can't speak as a produce-transporting reefer operator but in our case when fuel prices spike, we charge more to transport goods so that our profit margin will be retained. Our customers' shipping prices really do increase because we are charging more. What do we do with that extra money? We...

Yes, but it is an interesting discussion just the same. An Expedite Now article is coming to mind on this topic. The title would be "How Much Do You Make and How Do You Know?"

By buying my truck-guarding services, you relieved yourself of the obligation to provide them yourself. That enabled you to go off duty and preserve your log book hours for later use. But you did not buy time, you bought truck-guarding services. If I was to bill you on paper, it would not be for...

Actually, had we made the trade, I would have sold you my truck-guarding services at an agreed-upon price. It is not the time that is sold but the services.