What should Longview trucking companies know about their insurance?

I-20 runs along Longview's south side, with Dallas about two hours west and Shreveport about an hour east. US 259 runs north toward Ore City and Daingerfield and south toward Kilgore and Henderson. US 80 parallels I-20 through town, and Loop 281 circles the city.

East of Longview, US 59 runs through Marshall. TxDOT's Atlanta District is planning the development of I-369 in the Marshall area, with the goal of building, designating and signing Loop 390 as US 59 and ultimately I-369. TxDOT describes the proposed roadway as a four-lane route built to interstate standards, split into three sections for funding and design. TxDOT has not published a construction date on the project page.

For a Longview fleet, that means I-20 east-west freight today, with the US 59 north-south corridor to Texarkana and Houston one county over.

The RRC describes the Haynesville/Bossier Shale as located in East Texas (RRC District 6) and western Louisiana, and lists these Texas counties: Angelina, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine and Shelby. The productive interval is more than 10,000 feet below the surface, and on December 15, 2009 the RRC consolidated Haynesville/Bossier discoveries into the Carthage (Haynesville Shale) field.

In the RRC's July 2026 statistics, District 06 issued 44 permits to drill new holes and recorded 22 new gas completions.

Deep gas wells need a lot of trucking: frac sand, water in and produced water out, pipe and tubulars, and heavy equipment. The insurance issues are the same as any oilfield work:

• Pollution. A produced water or fluid spill can fall between auto and GL. See truck pollution liability.
• Permits. Hauling non-hazardous oil and gas waste for hire off the lease requires an RRC waste hauler permit and an active Form P-5.
• MSAs. Additional insured, waiver of subrogation and primary and non-contributory wording. See what is primary and non-contributory.

More on all of this at oilfield trucking insurance and tanker truck insurance.

Longview also sits in the East Texas timber economy. Texas A&M Forest Service's Harvest Trends 2023 report put the delivered value of the 2023 East Texas timber harvest at $821.1 million, with 1.8 billion board feet of sawlogs, and found that the wood-based sector was among the top five manufacturing employers in 33 of 43 East Texas counties. Log trucks and chip trailers share the same two-lane roads as oilfield traffic.

Longview's industrial base also generates flatbed freight: pipe, steel and fabricated equipment. See flatbed trucking insurance and heavy haul insurance.

A lot of Longview oilfield and industrial trucking happens off the highway: loading pipe in a yard, unloading sand at a pad site, or helping a customer rig up. Whether an injury or damage during that work falls under your auto policy or your general liability policy depends on the policy wording and the facts, and gaps between the two are common.

Ask how your policies treat loading and unloading, and whether you carry truckers general liability with the additional insured and waiver endorsements your customers require. See certificate holder vs additional insured.

Common Longview truck losses: run-off-road crashes on narrow, wet roads, deer strikes at dawn and dusk, backing incidents on pad sites, and rear-end crashes in I-20 congestion. We check:

1. That every operation is on the application. Oilfield, timber and general freight rate differently.
2. Named insured consistency across the policy, the USDOT number, the P-5 and the MSA. See FMCSA and TxDMV insurance filings.
3. Umbrella limits against what operators ask for. See trucking umbrella insurance.
4. Loss runs. If the renewal jumped, we read them first. See what is a loss run.