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Commercial Auto & Trucking for road paving contractors

Liability and physical damage for the dump trucks, fuel trucks, equipment haulers, and pickup fleets you run on public roads — including hired and non-owned auto for crews using personal vehicles on paving jobs.

Commercial Auto & Trucking — road paving contracting

What it covers

  • Liability for at-fault accidents in dump trucks and fuel trucks
  • Physical damage to owned commercial vehicles
  • Hired and non-owned auto for crew members
  • Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage
  • Equipment haulers and tractor-trailers transporting paving iron
  • Loading and unloading liability

Who it's for

  • Paving contractors with owned dump trucks or equipment haulers
  • Operations running fleets on public roads
  • Crews whose members use personal vehicles on paving business
  • Contractors whose farm auto or personal auto form excludes commercial hauling

Why CCA

  • Commercial hauling exposure correctly factored into the program
  • Coordinates with inland marine for equipment in transit
  • Fleet and single-vehicle programs available
Commercial Auto & Trucking — FAQ

Common questions about commercial auto & trucking

Vehicles used on public roads — dump trucks, fuel trucks, and equipment haulers — need commercial auto. Farm auto forms and personal auto policies exclude commercial hauling and heavy vehicles. We place commercial auto and coordinate it with your equipment and inland marine programs.

It covers liability when your crew members drive their own vehicles (or rented vehicles) on company business — picking up supplies, driving to a jobsite, or running an errand for the operation. If anyone does this, you want this coverage.

Your commercial auto covers the trailer and the tow vehicle. The equipment being transported may require inland marine or contractor's equipment coverage during transport — we coordinate both so the load and the iron are covered.

Fleet commercial auto programs are available for operations with multiple vehicles, with per-vehicle and per-fleet pricing options. Adding a truck is as simple as a call — no coverage gaps while you're scaling.

Cost is driven by crew size and payroll, equipment values, annual revenue, contract types, and loss history. We quote your actual operation in about 15 minutes — never a ballpark from a generic contractor form.

Yes. Contractors Choice Agency is licensed in all 50 states and writes paving programs nationwide — Texas, California, Florida, the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and everywhere asphalt gets laid.

Typically 15 minutes on a call. Larger or higher-value programs may take a day or two to place with the right markets, but we move fast and set expectations up front.

Often yes. We have admitted and E&S markets for contractors declined over prior loss runs, highway fatalities on record, OSHA citations, or high equipment values. Bring us your situation and we'll find a market.

Usually yes. A coordinated program closes gaps between policies, simplifies certificate management for DOT contracts, and is typically cheaper than separate policies from separate carriers.

A.M. Best ratings reflect a carrier's financial strength and ability to pay claims. We place coverage with A-rated (and A.M. Best A+ where possible) carriers so the coverage is there when a stolen paver, a fatality, or a bond call hits.

Yes. We write programs for union, open-shop, and mixed-crew paving operations. Union and prevailing-wage projects may have specific GL and WC requirements we factor into the program structure.

Equipment is paid at its scheduled value on the contractor's equipment policy. We schedule heavy paving iron at actual replacement cost — not depreciated ACV — so a theft or total loss pays what the piece is worth.

Crew size and payroll, full equipment list with values, annual revenue, contract types (DOT, commercial, municipal), bonding capacity needed, current coverage, and loss history. The more detail, the more accurate the quote.

Utility-line damage is a covered property-damage claim under your GL, subject to the policy terms. We make sure your GL form doesn't contain subsurface utility exclusions that would leave you exposed on a street-paving project where unmarked lines are a real risk.

Yes — flagging and traffic-control workers are covered under your workers' comp program. High-traffic-exposure work carries elevated WC rates, which is why correct class-code assignment matters. We class traffic-control and flagging labor accurately.

If your paver is scheduled at ACV or a value that doesn't reflect replacement cost, the claim pays the scheduled amount — not what it costs to replace. We schedule equipment at current replacement value so a claim settlement closes the gap rather than widening it.

Yes. If you're running multiple highway, commercial, and municipal projects at the same time, we build one GL, equipment, and inland marine program that covers every active site — no project-by-project certificate scramble.

Your GL has completed-operations coverage that extends to your work, but subcontractors need their own GL policies naming you as additional insured. We help you set up proper sub-insurance requirements and certificate tracking so your prime contract coverage isn't voided by an uninsured sub.

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