Certificate of Insurance for a Freight Broker or Shipper
Generate carrier certificates in the Spot app for each broker or shipper, and your Spot team handles requests for higher limits or added cargo cover.
Upload the broker’s or shipper’s carrier packet, or forward their insurance request. Your Spot team compares their limits with yours.
Trucking insurance
Cedar Freight · Policy review
Confirm with your broker
Limits, exclusions, and endorsements
If they want higher liability or cargo limits, or a coverage you don’t carry, we get the cost from your broker before you accept the lane.
Insurance documents
Certificate requestTrucking insurance
Vehicles · Drivers · Liability limits
Cedar Freight
Create it in the Spot app with the broker or shipper as certificate holder, and send it with the rest of your setup packet.
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Certificate of insurance
Cedar Freight
Ready for your review
Your Spot workspace keeps your trucking policies and their renewals, so you can send updated certificates without chasing your agent.
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Let’s review the information and discuss the next steps with your broker.
Trucking insurance policy
Coverage terms · Limits
Liability for injury or damage your truck causes, at the limit the broker or shipper sets.
Cover for the load itself, with a limit that fits the freight and any exclusions the shipper cares about.
Your legal name, MC and USDOT numbers matching your authority, and sometimes the units on the policy.
Some shippers ask for these too, especially when your drivers load or unload at their docks.
Their legal name and address, and sometimes their status on your policy, as their packet describes.
An endorsement some operations need on the liability policy as proof of financial responsibility. It isn’t created by a certificate, and the federal filing is a separate step.
Some shippers ask to be added to your auto or general liability policy. That needs an endorsement, which your Spot team requests through your broker and insurer.
Choose auto liability, cargo and anything else the packet lists.
Add their legal name and address as certificate holder.
Attach the packet’s insurance page or list its requirements, including any units or commodities to show.
Confirm your MC number, limits and policy dates, then download the certificate or send it to their carrier setup team.
Shippers read cargo terms for how the policy treats their goods, refrigeration and unattended trucks. Describe your freight when the policy is quoted, not after a shipper asks.
The insured name on the certificate should match the name on your operating authority.
Brokers can check your federal insurance filing separately. A certificate doesn’t replace it.
Trucking insurance with Spot for new authorities, fleet renewals and owner-operators: a prepared submission, compared proposals and certificates handled.
Explore coverageCargo and transit insurance with Spot: routes, storage stops and load values in one submission, and proposals compared on valuation, limits and exclusions.
Explore coverageBuy general liability with Spot: we prepare your submission, compare broker proposals on limits and terms, and get certificates and endorsements ready.
Explore coverageWorkers’ compensation with Spot: state requirements checked, payroll and job classifications described correctly, and broker proposals compared before you bind.
Explore coverageUmbrella and excess liability with Spot: contract limits checked, the underlying schedule confirmed and attachment terms compared before you bind.
Explore coverageGenerate carrier certificates in the Spot app for each broker or shipper, and your Spot team handles requests for higher limits or added cargo cover.
Read these before you choose a policy or an insurer.
