TRANSPORTATION  
INDUSTRIES

Transportation impacts virtually every sector of the economy and nearly every enterprise around the world. Transportation exposures can present significant financial and operational challenges to trucking companies throughout the US. Rising fuel costs, employee shortage and retention issues, credit risks, marketplace competition - these and other exposures can have a severe impact on a company's bottom line and impede its overall success.

Transportation insurance requirements must be carefully analyzed to avoid gaps in coverage caused by the unique characteristics of the business. Transportation risk management requires experts to assess the full spectrum of hazards, operations, strategic and financial risks. Developing forward-looking solutions to implement a comprehensive plan of insurance requires experience and insurance coverages that may include:

  • Comprehensive General Liability
  • Comprehensive Auto Liability and Physical Damage
  • Motor Carrier Filings – State and Federal
  • MCS 90
  • Trailer Interchange
  • Owner Operators
  • Intermodal
  • Environmental Liability
  • Business Interruption
  • Internet Liability/e-commerce
  • Management Liability
  • Crime
  • Directors and Officers Liability
  • Employment Practices Liability
  • Fiduciary Liability
  • Kidnap and Ransom
  • Property Insurance
  • Warehousemen’s Legal Liability
  • Umbrella Excess Liability
  • Workers Compensation


Additionally we provide a wide variety of related services including: 

  • Consulting services
  • Contract analysis
  • Alternative risk management
  • Claims management outsourcing
  • Risk premium financing
  • Surety credit enhancement

Our ability to respond to the unique characteristics of our client’s insurance needs is based on our depth of knowledge developed over many years with a variety of trucking related clients. Our personnel has an average of over 20 years of experience handling light to heavy trucking companies. Our focused attention to our client's individual needs provides our clients the assurance that they can comfortably operate in a litigious and sometimes hostile environment with the knowledge they have the insurance protection they need.

CONTACT

 

Mark Caplis
Product Specialist
Libertyville, IL
847-932-4805
mcaplis@firstgategroup.com
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LINKS

Federal Highway Administration
Illinois Dept. Of Transportation
SAFER System