Hello everyone. While I am new to this industry. (I start school next week) I do however have an extensive background in insurance.
I want to point out a mistake that everyone makes when comparing their premiums to the guy about above you. If you have a clean MVR with no losses be it at fault or not, the single greatest factor that decides what your premium will be is your credit. Any time you either get a quote or get a new policy the potential carrier will do what we call it a 'soft hit on your credit. We all it a soft hit because it's kind of like a silent look at your credit. In other words, it does not show up on your credit report. Btw, we call the report an 'insurance score. Most of the time we do not see your actual credit score or what is determining your reported insurance certificate score. If you want to see this first hand you can go to creditkarma.com.it all free and you can get your current credit score, and insurance score.
You can scream bloody murder all you want, but it really is that simple. Look at it this way, you could take a set of twins, put them both in seperate houses and cars made the same exact year with the same specs, and even though everything on the face of it is the same, the premium will always be different. And the same goes for commercial insursnce.
I hope this helps everyone understand why their premium I got be higher or lower than the guy or gal above you....
Stay safe and don't forget to pay your premium!
Btw, if you have any general questions about insursnce I will be more than happy to try and help. I cannot however speak on the behalf of any carriers.
Insursnce credit score is a huge factor in premuum
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by kewphotog, Oct 22, 2014.
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Even so called "soft" hits will shave off a couple of points of your credit score. I used to subscribe to one of those credit monitoring services. I found out back then that soft hits can lower your score. Not by much, but it still lowers your score somewhat. I would like to see insurance companies and anyone who doesn't have a loan application from you on their desk, prohibited from accessing your credit score, soft or not. As long as you have a clean MVR, no claims and pay your premiums on time, your credit score should not come into play. It is too easy for anyone to get into your credit file. All they need to do currently is to say that they have a need to know.
Cetane+, exhausted379 and Shoestring Thank this. -
All carriers go through this. I liken it to suddenly having a bucket of customers that's too expensive to carry. Raise the rates, recoup losses, bucket gets too empty you fill it up by dropping the rates.... Rinse and repeat..... -
Mine is 900 n some change. However OOIDA rates went up $50.00 a month. Ugh
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Charli Girl and Cetane+ Thank this.
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And a common counter point is that some people have poor credit at no fault of their own. Divorce, stolen identity etc, I agree with this and it sucks.
Don't like the insurance companies checking up on your credit? The the are two options. First would be to self insure, you would have to go to the state for approval. Second would be just don't get insurance...... -
I use Credit Karma seeing how its free. On there they have an insurance score, which I see is on a 150-950 scoring window. Do you guys actually utilize information based on these numbers (that I never heard of before) or is this just something that this particular website does?
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