Details for subhaul and equipment-rental payment security

The Bureau of Household Goods and Services publishes General Order 102-H in its 2025 Household Movers Act compilation. Business and Professions Code section 19228 carries forward the relevant former Commission rules for household movers pending implementing regulations. Match the current Bureau or other actual requesting authority and covered operation; do not use an old Commission address or assume the former highway-carrier wording creates a universal present-day trucking mandate.

The order requires a good and sufficient bond of at least $15,000, filed by the carrier as principal with a qualified surety authorized in California. It covers the full extent of the carrier's operations and can cover more than one operative authority held by the same carrier. Revise or reissue it to cover additional authority. An intermediate subhauler that engages a further carrier can itself be the prime carrier responsible for those downstream charges.

Keep the signed written subhaul or equipment lease agreement, agreed charges and setoffs, authority identifiers, proof of delivery and payment records. The order requires the writing before or within five days after service or the lease begins, including the surety's name and address and bond expiration date. It says the carrier's failure to provide that agreement is not itself a reason to reject or deny a surety claim.

Payment, claim and cancellation periods are separate. The order's 60-day claim-filing provision refers to shipment completion, lease termination or payment falling due under its payment rules; the claimant files with the surety and notifies the regulator. Suit against the surety is due within one year after the claim is filed. Surety cancellation takes effect 30 days after the regulator receives notice. Preserve the actual triggering records and confirm current filing directions rather than treating any one period as an annual bond term.