Insurance for new CDL

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Old 01-30-2008, 12:23 AM
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Default Insurance for new CDL

I know this has been asked and answered before here, but I just spent the last 2 hours unsuccessfully trying to find the threads, so...

Can anyone recommend an insurance company, other than Progressive, that will write liability/cargo insurance for an owner operator with less than one year of CDL experience?

Thanks for any suggestions.
 
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Old 01-30-2008, 02:30 AM
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I have 2 friends I went to truck driving school with that bought trucks right after we got out of school and they didn't have any problem getting insurance here http://www.truckersins.com/

Hold on when they give you a quote though
 
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Old 01-30-2008, 02:42 AM
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Thats why they call it legalized extortion. merrick might be able to help you. Can you post the numbers when you get a few quotes ?
 
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Old 01-30-2008, 02:58 AM
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I got my CDL in september and although you already mentioned Progressive , they wrote me for liability and Canal out of Greenville SC wrote my Cargo. I got 1000000 from Progressive for 3500.00 and 100000 cargo from Canal for 2900.00 . Progressive was the only one I could find that wrote for a new driver as was Canal . There may be others but I found Progressive right off the bat and it took a bit longer to find Canal so i didn't look any further. The Progressive quote could have been lower but I opted for 1000000 instead of the minimum 750000 and I also got a Garage keepers for around 600.00 included in the 3500.00 price. I had to have this ( garage keepers ) because Copart whom I am going to be hauling for required it.
 
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Old 01-30-2008, 03:17 AM
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If the state requires you to have insurance they must make it available. It's called Assigned Risk.
 
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Old 01-30-2008, 03:21 AM
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Darin...you got your CDL in Sept....that's 2007 I assume :wink:

And with only a few months experience you got quotes for $3500/yr ($1M liability-Progressive) and $2900/yr (100K cargo-Canal)??

Those are great quotes for a newbie!!! Wow!! Am I missing something?

Is this for 48 states? No radius restriction?
 
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Old 01-30-2008, 03:27 AM
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ask Steve Booth, he did it so it can be done, do not let any body tell you different, he is on here in from desk to Owen authority.
 
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Old 01-30-2008, 03:45 AM
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geomon, yes that is true . As a matter of fact I really have no experience
because I got CDL went to maverick for 10 days and left. I was shocked and pleased at the same time when I first got the quote from Progressive.
From what all I had heard from others , it was going to be impossible
or very expensive . The lady said that I had a good driving record and excellent credit. I asked her why would credit matter and she said they look at the character of the applicant. I was told the exact same thing
by the agent that wrote my cargo. Now to further explain , I have a
4 car rollback which is med duty as you know but I was quoted about the same on a freightliner 5 pac which was a class 8 truck . If I would have gotten a truck and trailer I would have been limited to 500 miles
(was 300 but they just raised it ) and was told this was their policy concerning Kentucky so not sure about other states. They consider a truck and trailer more of a risk unless it is a bumper pull (don't ask me why). So yes I can go all 48 states.
 
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