Authority and Dump Trucks

Is the benifit worth the large extra in insurance you have to maintain?
I'm not sure about your current cargo insurance but with your own authority it runs 600 to 1200 per month and this is required 60days in advance for the government to keep your authority open.
And brokers can see if you have your authorthy suspened.

 

You do not need cargo insurance to have your interstate authority. Unless the broker asks for references it would not matter what you haled before.

 

i carry cargo insurance for dump work, yes for the most part its kinda a moot point when a load of class 5 at 10 bucks a ton is $250. some materials can get a bit spendy special crushes decorative rock. asphalt but still wouldn't kill ya if you had to buy a load. but some people you work for want you to have cargo insurance. one wanted 100k in cargo insurance so i could haul some class 5 for him i told him he was nuts and to find someone else to haul his loads. not that i coulden't buy the insurance but wanting 100k in insurance on a 250 dollar load is just stupid, hell the 10k i carry when 90% of my loads are worth less than 500 is a bit rediculious but whatever

 

on a side note i know we are getting off topic now. but right after i posed i had a funny thought.

coustomer hires contractor to biuld say a driveway. contractor pays for materials and trucking ect. coustomer never pays there bill, contractor comes back with equipment digs the driveway back out and hauls off. re-posesed driveway....lol

obviously that would never happen because of the cost involved but it would be hilarious if it did

 

Well, when I pulled a 40 ft Ti-Brook we had to have cargo as the floor was built for forklifts and we hauled bricks, bags and anything you could load in one. We hauled ground alternators, junk metal in 500 lb blocks, fertlizer, salt, manure, sand for forms, beer bottles for recycle, glass, coal, grain, roofing granules, and more crap than I can remember. One guy went to Phoenix with sand for forms from Ohio, when he got to the customer, the girl said, bring it back tomorrow, we're closed. It wasa 4:30 and the sign said open til %PM so he dumped the load on their scales and went home.