Daimler Truck Financial Services and GEICO Launch Connected Insurance Program for Trucking Customers

FORT WORTH, Texas & WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 24, 2025--

Daimler Truck Financial Services USA LLC (DTFS) and GEICO, one of the largest and most recognized insurers in the United States, today announced the launch of Connected Insurance, a new data-driven insurance program designed to help Freightliner and Western Star owner-operators and small fleets save on premiums while promoting safer driving. The program is contracted through DTFS’s subsidiary, Daimler Truck Insurance Agency LLC.

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Connected Insurance enhances GEICO’s DriveEasy Pro program by leveraging data to reward safe driving. Freightliner and Western Star customers can voluntarily share their real-time Detroit Connect telematics data and take advantage of the benefits without the need to install additional on-board diagnostics or dashcam hardware in the truck. This enables more accurate underwriting and streamlines the claims experience. Eligible customers can save up to 10 percent on their commercial vehicle insurance premiums.

“Daimler Truck Financial Services will always be focused on delivering comprehensive and innovative financial solutions tailored to the unique needs of our customers,” said Kevin Bangston, president and CEO of Daimler Truck Financial Services North America. “This strategic partnership with GEICO introduces a smart, data-driven insurance option that helps our customers reduce one of their largest operational expenses.”

“Real-time data from Daimler Truck’s telematics platform allows us to better assess risk, reward safe driving, and deliver meaningful savings to our customers,” said Chris Sions, GEICO’s head of partnerships. “Expanding our commercial trucking insurance nationwide requires strong partnerships like the one we’ve built with Daimler Truck Financial Services.”

The launch comes at a critical time for the trucking industry. According to the American Transportation Research Institute, insurance costs rank as the fourth-highest challenge for carriers, particularly for small businesses. Connected Insurance addresses this directly by making quality coverage more accessible and affordable, supporting the long-term success of independent drivers and small fleets.

GEICO’s entry into the commercial trucking space expands coverage options tailored specifically for Freightliner and Western Star customers. Developed with input from owner-operators and industry professionals, the program combines real-world telematics data with advanced analytics to offer competitive rates backed by Berkshire Hathaway. The program also benefits from GEICO’s nearly 90 years of auto insurance experience, now enhanced with specialized trucking expertise to deliver efficient claims services designed for commercial vehicles.

Connected Insurance shows DTFS’s continued commitment to leveraging Detroit Connect telematics data to enhance the ownership experience. As DTFS continues to innovate, it will explore additional ways to apply connected vehicle data across its financial services portfolio.

About Daimler Truck Financial Services

Daimler Truck Financial Services USA LLC (DTFS) is the captive finance partner of Daimler Truck North America LLC, offering a comprehensive range of financing, leasing, and insurance solutions tailored to the needs of commercial vehicle customers. With decades of experience and a commitment to innovation, DTFS supports businesses of all sizes in achieving operational efficiency and long-term success. For more information, visit Home | Daimler Truck Financial.

About Daimler Truck Insurance Agency

Daimler Truck Insurance Agency LLC (“DTIA”) is a Daimler Truck Financial Services USA LLC subsidiary and licensed insurance agency (CA license #6005774). DTIA is not the coverage provider or underwriter. Coverage is provided and underwritten by DTIA’s third-party insurance carriers, their subsidiaries, or affiliates. Product coverage and availability varies by state. Coverages, benefits, and discounts may vary and are subject to the terms and conditions of the policy.

About GEICO

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company), the third-largest auto insurer in the U.S., was founded in 1936 and insures vehicles in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. GEICO, a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, constantly strives to make lives better by protecting people against unexpected events while saving them money and providing an outstanding customer experience. Along with personal auto insurance, commercial auto and personal umbrella coverages are also available. Homeowners, renters, condo, flood, identity theft, term life, and more coverages are written through non-affiliated insurance companies and are secured through the GEICO Insurance Agency, LLC. Visit GEICO.com for a quote or to learn more.

Daimler Truck Financial Services USA LLC (DTFS) and GEICO have launched Connected Insurance, a new data-driven insurance program designed to help Freightliner and Western Star owner-operators and small fleets save on premiums while promoting safer driving.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term's most consequential cases, President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. Trump plans to be in attendance.

In arguments Wednesday, the justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down the citizenship restrictions, one of several courts that have blocked them. They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.

A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.

Trump will be the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court.

The case frames another test of his assertions of executive power that defy long-standing precedent for a court that has largely ruled in the president's favor, but with some notable exceptions that Trump has responded to with starkly personal criticisms of the justices.

The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.

Birthright citizenship is the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling. The justices previously struck down global tariffs Trump had imposed under an emergency powers law that had never been used that way.

Trump reacted furiously to the late February tariffs' decision, saying he was ashamed of the justices who ruled against him and calling them unpatriotic.

He issued a preemptive broadside against the court on Sunday on his Truth Social. “Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America. It is about the BABIES OF SLAVES!,” the president wrote. “Dumb Judges and Justices will not a great Country make!”

Trump's order would upend the longstanding view that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, and federal law since 1940 confer citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.

The 14th Amendment was intended to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship, though the Citizenship Clause is written more broadly. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” it reads.

In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down the executive order as illegal, or likely so, under the Constitution and federal law. The decisions have invoked the high court's 1898 ruling in Wong Kim Ark, which held that the U.S.-born child of Chinese nationals was a citizen.

The administration argues that the common view of citizenship is wrong, asserting that children of noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore not entitled to citizenship.

The court should use the case to set straight “long-enduring misconceptions about the Constitution’s meaning,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote.

No court has accepted that argument, and lawyers for pregnant women whose children would be affected by the order said the Supreme Court should not be the first to do so.

“We have the president of the United States trying to radically reinterpret the definition of American citizenship,” said Cecillia Wang, the American Civil Liberties Union legal director who is facing off against Sauer at the Supreme Court.

More than one-quarter of a million babies born in the U.S. each year would be affected by the executive order, according to research by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute.

While Trump has largely focused on illegal immigration in his rhetoric and actions, the birthright restrictions also would apply to people who are legally in the United States, including students and applicants for green cards, or permanent resident status.

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President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen as the moon rises Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)