Detroit Class A hauler bonds.
$100 flat. Five minutes.
The City of Detroit requires a $1,500 surety bond from a Class A hauler of extraordinary loads — the oversize and overweight loads that move over city streets. Ours is $100 flat — the price our carrier set for this bond, not a percentage calculation. Five-minute application; the form collects no credit information.
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Three steps. One sitting.
City permit bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with the City of Detroit
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your City of Detroit extraordinary-load hauler permit. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
A hauler of extraordinary loads bond is a street-protection guarantee. Moving oversize and overweight loads over the City of Detroit's streets can damage pavement, bridges, and traffic structures, so the City wants a financial backstop that you operate under your permit and repair what you break.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Detroit (the obligee). If your extraordinary load damages city streets or property, or you violate the terms of your hauling permit, the City can recover against the bond. Class A is the City's heavier hauler classification.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Haulers who route responsibly and repair any damage treat the bond as a permit formality, and we keep your $1,500 filing continuous with renewal notices 60 and 30 days out.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — the application has no credit section at all.
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Finish your Detroit hauling permit today.
$100 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.