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What impact will electric trucks have on carriers' insurance rates?

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Insurance is one of the largest expenses for trucking fleets and insurance is a business built on trends and historical data – a couple key items that we don’t have on electric trucks. 

Kristy Neal, Head of Enterprise Growth at Cover Whale, joins the 10-44 this week, and she’s got some expensive news as it relates to paying for vehicle damage.         

00:00 10-44 intro 

00:29 Electric trucks and insurance premiums 

01:13 Higher purchase price for EV’s 

01:53 Carrier risk profile 

04:51 Safe driver behavior and vehicle maintenance