BIPD primary insurance: what it means on your FMCSA record
BIPD primary insurance is the first liability layer on a truck policy. See how it shows on FMCSA records, how excess layers stack and what to file.
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Trucking and transportation
- Box trucksCommercial auto: About $909 a month
- Car haulersCommercial auto: About $787 a month
- Charter and tour busesCommercial auto, $1 million limit: About $1,078 a month
- Concrete mixer trucksCommercial auto: About $816 a month
- Drayage and intermodal truckingFor-hire truck auto: $821 a month
- Dump trucksCommercial auto: About $987 a month
- Flatbed truckingCommercial auto: About $816 a month
Contractors and trades
- CarpentersGeneral liability: About $94 a month
- Concrete contractorsGeneral liability: About $119 a month
- Drywall contractorsGeneral liability: About $62 a month
- ElectriciansGeneral liability: About $61 a month
- Excavation and grading contractorsCommercial auto: About $370 a month
- Fencing contractorsGeneral liability: About $115 a month
- Flooring installersGeneral liability: $50–$77 a month
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- Commercial auto
- Trucking
- Commercial flood
- Builder’s risk
- Business interruption
- Business owner’s policy (BOP)
- Commercial crime and employee theft
- Commercial property
- Commercial umbrella and excess liability
- Contractor license and surety bonds
- Cyber liability
- Directors and officers (D&O)
- Employment practices liability (EPLI)
- Garage liability and garagekeepers
- General liability
- Hired and non-owned auto (HNOA)
- Inland marine (tools and equipment)
- Liquor liability
- Motor truck cargo
- Non-trucking and bobtail liability
- Occupational accident insurance for owner-operators
- Product liability
- Professional liability (E&O)
- Truck physical damage
- Workers’ compensation
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