Heavy Duty Trucking Logo
MenuMENU
SearchSEARCH
Enter keywords to search across all content
ArticlesJuly 10, 2025

A Disaster Checklist for Trucking Fleets

Whether it's a thunderstorm or a tornado, trucking fleets need a recovery plan and a checklist of things to do when bad weather threatens. Use this checklist to quickly take action to protect your employees and business.

Read More →
Articlesby Deborah LockridgeJuly 1, 2025

Q&A: Natural Disasters And Your Trucking Insurance

We asked Matt Oakes, AVP Risk Advisor at Risk Strategies, a few questions about insurance and natural disasters for trucking operations.

Read More →
ArticlesJune 30, 2025

Disaster Readiness: Develop a Business Continuity Plan for Your Fleet

A step-by-step approach to business continuity planning, prepared well before any disaster, will allow your trucking fleet to resume operations as quickly as possible.

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Articlesby StaffJune 27, 2025

Is Your Trucking Fleet Ready for Hurricane Season?

At least one hurricane will likely hit the United States in the next few months. Now is the time for your trucking company to revisit your hurricane preparation and recovery plans.

Read More →
Articlesby Deborah LockridgeJune 26, 2025

Disaster Doesn't Wait. Is Your Trucking Fleet Ready?

How well is your trucking fleet prepared for a disaster like Hurricane Helene, the Los Angeles wildfires from earlier this year, or deadly tornadoes?

Read More →
Newsby StaffJune 9, 2025

Disaster-Proofing Heavy-Duty Fleets Starts with a Plan 

The Disaster Preparation & Response Guide offers a blueprint for trucking professionals to create disaster strategies that work in real life, not just on paper. 

Read More →
Ad Loading...
Newsby Deborah LockridgeOctober 3, 2024

Trucking in the Hurricane Helene Aftermath

Hurricane Helene left a 600-mile swath of destruction and record flooding in the Southeast, with major highways washed out in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, power outages, fuel shortages, communication disruptions and more affecting trucking.

Read More →
Trailer Talkby Tom BergAugust 31, 2017

'High-Water Vehicles' Take Many Forms in Harvey Rescue Work

Trucks perform vital work, but explosions at a chemical plant near Houston involved refrigerated trailers that stored temperature-sensitive compounds. Tom Berg also explores some of the various vehicles, including trailers, being used in relief efforts in this Trailer Talk blog.

Read More →

Earthquakes, Highways and Washington State

As if we didn't have enough to worry about when it comes to our crumbling infrastructure and how it holds up to everyday traffic, in Washington State they're asking the question: What happens if there's a major earthquake? Deborah Lockridge has more in her All That's Trucking blog.

Read More →