Candace Marley is an owner-operator in Iowa with more than a decade of experience on the road. The thought that most rigs are giant computers on wheels isn’t far from her mind and, like many truckers, the risk of being hacked is in the mix of the myriad of concerns a driver has to worry about on each run. But between uptime to traffic jams, cybersecurity is not the highest worry on her list.
“It’s a concern. My truck has a lot of computer stuff in it, but I stay away from the trucks with the more advanced computer interfaces,” Marley said of her 2020 Peterbilt 579.
An entire industry exists to held fleets mitigate financial risks from everything to accidents to tornadoes, but cybersecurity insurance isn’t at the top of her mind, and it isn’t with many other truckers.
“I have never heard of it for trucking,” Marley said.
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