Iowa travel trailer dealer bonds.
$250 flat.
Iowa licenses travel trailer dealers under Iowa Code chapter 322C, with the bond filed through the Iowa DOT. Ours is $250 flat — the price you see is the checkout price. Heads up: Iowa raised the statutory amount to $75,000 effective July 1, 2019 — confirm which figure your application requires before you file.
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How much does an Iowa travel trailer dealer bond cost?
$250 at the $25,000 amount, the same for every applicant.
Three steps to licensed.
Your dealer license is waiting on this bond. Here's the entire process — no broker phone tag:
Apply once, online
Business details, owner information, effective date. That is the application — the only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Approved
Most are approved as soon as you apply. One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score. If it needs a second look, one to two business days at most.
File with the Iowa DOT
Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with your travel trailer dealer license through the Iowa DOT. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Iowa licenses travel trailer dealers under Iowa Code chapter 322C, and conditions the license on a surety bond filed through the Iowa DOT. The bond runs to the State of Iowa and is conditioned on the dealer’s faithful compliance with the statutes regulating travel trailer dealers, indemnifying anyone who does business with the dealer against loss caused by the dealer’s failure to comply.
An important update: Iowa raised this bond from $25,000 to $75,000 effective July 1, 2019. The scraped application amount shown here is $25,000 — the pre-2019 figure — so confirm with the Iowa DOT whether your license now requires the $75,000 bond before you file. We’ll issue whichever amount your application actually requires.
One common exemption: an applicant is not required to file a separate travel trailer bond if it is already licensed as a motor vehicle dealer under the same name at the same principal place of business. If that’s you, the motor vehicle dealer bond may already cover this — ask us and we’ll confirm.
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Claims, renewal, filing, and what sets the price.
If a claim is made
A claim comes from the party the bond protects, the obligee named on the form, when the duty the bond guarantees is not met.
The surety investigates and pays a valid claim, up to the $25,000 bond amount. You then repay the surety: a surety bond is a guarantee of your performance, not insurance for you.
Renewal and term
The premium covers a one-year term from the effective date you choose; a longer term is the same price per year, chosen at checkout.
Renew before the expiry date to keep the bond in force: the license, permit or contract it backs expects continuous coverage.
How to file it
File with the Iowa DOT. Pay online and receive the executed bond ready to file with your travel trailer dealer license through the Iowa DOT. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists.
What sets the price
The premium is fixed at $250 at the $25,000 amount for every applicant: the carrier’s rate book prices this bond by the form, not by your credit or your business profile.
One soft credit pull, never a hard inquiry, and it never affects your score.
Where a check runs, it decides approval; the rate is the same for everyone approved.
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Confirm your required amount with us, and your bond is issued when you pay.
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The Iowa DOT is waiting on one document.
$250 flat, short application, bond issued when you pay. Confirm your amount and we’ll issue it — free until issued.