Insurance cost rising! Driving us to the ground

446755

{"replyTo":"","text":"I'm an owner op, 1 truck/own authorities. Been doing this since 2002. Insurance has skyrocketed. We're mandated to government insurance in our province. (I'm from Canada). No free market choice. Anyone with their class 1/cdl can get insurance up here, 1 day of experience in trucking is enough... d\nDon't know if I'll survive another year... 9-5 starting to look attractive. By the way, brokers are still charging their customers the same as they did 2-3 years ago. We just don't see any of it... This is coming from first hand experience.","replyToPid":0}

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689880 发表于 2019-11-14 00:21:42 I have been shopping around with a couple other insurance companies, but my current agent says that some companies are paying what we are for 6 months instead of a year- but one last attempt and I’m hoping we can stay on the road.

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200820 发表于 2019-11-14 00:33:35 Same story over here too, Just down sized my fleet from 4 trucks to just 1. Had to let go of 3 employees. Sold most of my equipment and now it's just me and my volvo!! Almost about to loose my mind too!!

","text":"Wow!!! That’s so sad- we had another driver and set up but just couldn’t do it- he didn’t like to work anyway lol. It’s looking up though- I need a retirement plan so I can enjoy my years- can’t save anything right now","replyToPid":250673}

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82031 发表于 2019-11-14 00:45:42 I just got my renewal and the agent says, yaa if you are more then 20 truck strong u will get a better rate. small independent carriers are not someone we care for really.. wow.

","text":"Wow! Yeah seems like some of the companies I reached out to were not interested. There’s barely anyone except United road that have 20 trucks- in my industry- they dispatch out too and their rates are garbage. \nI have four agents searching for us and I don’t think we are going to get any better ","replyToPid":250683}

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295387 发表于 2019-11-14 01:03:27 I have Great West insurance I don’t know what you have northern is good Progressive I heard isn’t bad

","text":"Progressive- cause they progressively increase our rates by double each year! ","replyToPid":250699}

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723808 发表于 2019-11-14 01:09:40 I'm running under someone elses insurance but own my truck straight out.  I was hoping to go solo this Spring but listening to you guys now I'm not for sure!  Hope everything works out and you get a decent rate.

","text":"Thank you! We might just run a few more months, save money- file bankruptcy- I’m going to take online courses. Just love what we do \nGood luck and if things are good- you might wanna stay? ","replyToPid":250703}

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446755 发表于 2019-11-14 01:48:06 I'm an owner op, 1 truck/own authorities. Been doing this since 2002. Insurance has skyrocketed. We're mandated to government insurance in our province. (I'm from Canada). No free market choice. Anyone with their class 1/cdl can get insurance up here, 1 day of experience in trucking is enough... d\nDon't know if I'll survive another year... 9-5 starting to look attractive. By the way, brokers are still charging their customers the same as they did 2-3 years ago. We just don't see any of it... This is coming from first hand experience.

","text":"Lord! Yep- going to get back in to healthcare and work for the man again lol. At least I moved to a sunny state where everyone goes to retire ","replyToPid":250734}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"your obviously doing it wrong or working for a cheap cheap broker freight company, the loads I run average around 5 bucks a loaded mile and it's not heavy haul, I drive about 2k loaded miles a week and get 78 percent.","replyToPid":0}

235536

{"replyTo":"","text":"maybe ask yourself what you can do to better your situation save money .. remember the economy doesn't get better because our bills are higher it's how you set your business up","replyToPid":0}

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235536 发表于 2019-11-15 05:24:23 maybe ask yourself what you can do to better your situation save money .. remember the economy doesn't get better because our bills are higher it's how you set your business up

","text":"We’ve been in business for seven years now, what we did to save money was move out of our house and now we live out of a truck. So does that sound like a better way to run or save money? Does not having a house sound like a way to live? ","replyToPid":251476}