Risks of the insurance in road transport

Abstract

The growing trend of road freight transport also brings many negative factors, such as an increase in crime in the sector. In 2021, semi-trailers took the second place in the number of registered vehicles in Slovakia. This is also reflected the crime in the road freight transport, which has had a very slow declining trend in recent years. On the contrary, what is growing is the number of insurance frauds recorded by the Slovak insurance company. We analyse in the article individual types of criminal offenses in road freight transport. We are also trying to find measures by which the risk of crime can be reduced. Whether measures in the form of insurance or options verification of information before the start of the shipment itself. Insurance does not have to be just a means of compensating for any damages, it can at the same time serve as a tool to make the services offered more attractive, confirmation complexity of the services offered, but it can also be one of the motivational tools employer.