Originally published at: https://freightwaves-2026.local/news/trucking-risk-control-could-become-the-new-entrant-gate
For decades, insurance was the one thing you couldn’t fake your way past to start a trucking company. That’s no longer true. As instant-issue coverage and $300 authority fees make it easier than ever to place 80,000 pounds on public highways without verification, a scalable, pre-authority risk-control model could restore the gate the industry lost without adding a single federal employee to the payroll.