ARIZONA TRUCK GROUP
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Underwriting Profile

156 E Mohave St, Phoenix, AZ 85004 (602) 437-3980

This page is a scaffold. The structure below follows what carriers and wholesale brokers actually ask for in a transportation submission. Several sections are not populated yet — each says so plainly and names what it is waiting on, rather than showing a figure nobody has verified.

Nothing on this page should be treated as a bound representation until the section carrying it is marked complete and dated.

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Operations profile

Underwriters price radius, commodity and exposure before anything else. A fleet that never leaves a metro and hauls water is a different risk from long-haul freight.

Partial

  • Radius — Phoenix metropolitan area. Work is jobsite-based dust control and compaction, not line-haul freight.
  • Commodity — water, and the group's own equipment moved between yard, shop and customer sites.
  • Rental fleet — non-road-legal by design. Units are delivered on a trailer and remain on the customer's site for the contract term rather than operating on public roads under their own registration.
  • Retail — conducted through an Arizona-licensed dealer, ADOT L0005060.
Still needed for this section Garaging addresses per location · power-unit and trailer counts by class · annual mileage by unit · IFTA returns for the last four quarters · driver headcount (employee vs. contractor) · states of operation beyond Arizona, if any. owner: Brandon — operational facts no system currently records
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Loss history

The single most-weighted item in a submission. Carriers expect five years of loss runs valued within 90 days, and they read frequency and severity separately — a pattern of small repeated claims prices worse than one large anomaly.

Not started
No loss data assembled yet Required: five-year loss runs from every prior carrier, valued within the last 90 days, for each line — commercial auto, general liability, garage/garagekeepers, property, and workers' compensation. Then an analysis separating frequency from severity, open vs. closed reserves, and a written explanation of any large or repeated loss including what changed afterwards. owner: Accounting Manager — policy and claim records · analysis: MC-ATG

Loss runs vary in format and completeness between carriers, so the analysis should normalise them into one table rather than forwarding a stack of PDFs. A clean five-year summary materially shortens quoting time.

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Equipment schedule

Scheduled values drive physical-damage premium directly. A rebuilt unit with a documented build file is a different proposition from an unverified purchase.

Partial

Every resale and rental unit passes through the group's own shop before it is sold or placed on hire — nothing is bought finished and flipped. That gives a documented build history per unit, which is unusual in this class and relevant to physical-damage rating.

Still needed for this section Full schedule: VIN, year, make, model, body/tank configuration, stated value, and radius class for every owned and rental unit. The warehouse holds inventory records that can produce most of this once the full QuickBooks mirror lands. owner: WDM — generate from the warehouse once item/inventory tables are mirrored
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Drivers and qualification

Driver data increasingly outweighs loss runs in pricing — loss runs say what already happened, driver records indicate what is likely next.

Not started
No driver file assembled yet Required: full driver roster with dates of hire, MVRs refreshed within the annual FMCSA requirement, sample driver qualification files, and the hiring standard applied (minimum experience, MVR thresholds that disqualify, pre-employment screening). owner: Brandon — personnel records are not in any system WDM can read
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Safety and maintenance program

This is where a good risk separates itself. Carriers want evidence of a working program, not an assertion that one exists — completion rates, defect resolution times, and documents they can sample.

Not started

The group services and rebuilds its own fleet in-house, which means maintenance records originate internally rather than from third-party shops. That is a genuine advantage here — provided the records can be produced on request.

Still needed for this section Written safety policy · DVIR completion rate and average defect-resolution time · preventive-maintenance interval and compliance rate · any telematics or dashcam coverage · accident review procedure · CSA/SMS BASIC scorecard with a six-month trend, if the group holds an active USDOT operating authority. owner: Brandon + Accounting Manager (policy documents)
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Financial standing

Carriers ask for two years of financials plus a current interim statement — partly for premium security, partly because financial stress is a leading indicator of deferred maintenance.

Partial

Entity financials are maintained in QuickBooks and mirrored nightly into a Postgres warehouse. Per-entity profit & loss with transaction-level drill-down is available at the company profiles.

Still needed for this section Two complete fiscal years plus current interim, prepared for external presentation. The warehouse currently holds a full general ledger for two entities of nine; the remainder are pending the QuickBooks mirror. owner: Accounting Manager — statement preparation · WDM — warehouse coverage
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The case, in one paragraph

Submissions that include a written narrative of operations and management experience quote faster than those that make an underwriter assemble the story themselves.

Not started
Narrative not written A short statement covering: how long the core build shop has operated (1991), the management team's experience, any material operational change in the last three years, and what the group has changed in response to past losses. This is written last, once sections 02 through 05 contain real data — writing it first would mean asserting a safety record nobody has measured. owner: MC-ATG, drafted from the completed sections above