The City of Bowling Green requires a $5,000 bond of licensed rubbish and refuse haulers collecting within the city. Ours is $275 flat — the floor on a 3% rate — with no credit check.
















A hauler license bond is about the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with Bowling Green's clerk / public works department with your hauler license. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, which is below our $275 minimum — so the premium is $275 per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
A rubbish hauler bond is a compliance and public-property guarantee. When you collect refuse within the City of Bowling Green, the city wants a financial backstop that you follow its hauling rules and don't leave streets, alleys, or property damaged or littered.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the City of Bowling Green (the obligee). If a hauler violates the city's refuse rules or damages public or private property in the course of collection, the city or harmed party can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Haulers who follow the city rules treat the bond as a license formality, not a risk.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.