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pullingtrucker · **^ Top** #**181** 10.05.2009

More than likely the stateside insurance companies will not insure you do to the difference in traffic laws, roads, and lack of expereince on US highways. Not to mention your age. Ever since (and even before) 9/11/01 the insurance companies have been restricting carriers and o/o more and more every year. Not with just higher premiums, but also with higher standards and qualifications. The best of luck to ya and i hope you do find a company that will insure ya.

Old Man · **^ Top** #**182** 10.05.2009

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Originally Posted by Dutched

Well, after some calculating for myself I found out that buying a truck, trailer, a few months salary and some starting cash (fuel, damages, etc..) is absolutely no problem. The only problem that occurs to me is, by the time I'm going to America I will be aprox 25 years old, maybe a year older. Which means that I will have 6 years of European OTR experience, will the American insurance companies hold notice with this or does it mean once I come to the USA I will have to start all over again? That the European miles will simply be ignored and that the company will refuse to insure me until I drive in the USA for a few years.

Or will the insurance company tell me 'Ok, you have over a million legal European miles, here are the papers, please sign and your insured'

Thanks in advance,
Dutched.

More important, will you have a green card?

Dutched · **^ Top** #**183** 10.05.2009

That's something I can only hope for. I expect that to be the biggest obstacle of everything I will have to go through.

Irishtrucker · **^ Top** #**184** 10.05.2009

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Originally Posted by Dutched

That's something I can only hope for. I expect that to be the biggest obstacle of everything I will have to go through.

Hi there

Getting a green card is going to be very difficult for you unless you happen to get very lucky in the lottery or have family here already. My wife is American and it has still taken me a year to get work authorization.

I have to say as well from driving in Europe and comparing that to the stories i have read here that the level of respect between truckers in Europe is higher than here (just my opinion).

I wish you all the best in your quest.

Dutched · **^ Top** #**185** 10.05.2009

But is it that difficult due to the current financial crisis, or has it always been that way? Because well, I have five years to get everything settled. I assume getting all paperwork done in five years is possible, or well, I hope it is. I have heard that it was currently very hard to receive an American green card, but I always blamed the crisis for that.

And else I'll marry a prostitute, the goal justifies the means.

rattrod30 · **^ Top** #**186** 4 Weeks Ago

I just got off the phone with progressive .They told me they offer no product for Flatbed semi over 50miles. Is this for real or did i get a dumb operator?

PeterbiltCouple · **^ Top** #**187** 4 Weeks Ago

Probably correct. Progressive won't cover scrap (crushed cars), either, which would be carried either on flat beds or in dumps.

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