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The insurance premium for the fire truck is 800 dollars per year.

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No source addresses the $800 annual insurance premium for this fire truck. The only source on the matter is the claimant's own podcast passage, which is not evidence, and the trucking-insurance sources concern semi-trucks rather than a fire truck, so the claim cannot be graded in either direction.

This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.

What was said

… I'm like, hey, I got a fire truck. He's like, yeah, an ice cream truck? I like, I didn't say ice cream truck. I said fire truck. So I go to insurance, like, how much you want? Like, a hundred grand. If this thing burns to the ground, I need a hundred grand. It's like, okay, that's 800 dollars a year. I'm like, mm, fantastic price. Rich calls me up. He's like, ah, Antifa marked the Murgs. I put it in a video, and they, like, want to burn down, like, 150. Yeah, mm-hmm. It's like, probably one of the best gambles ever. Yeah, firebomb Malta cocktail. …
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What we found

Context. The podcast passage (claimant's own words) describes a broker quote of 800 dollars a year for roughly 100,000 dollars of coverage on a fire truck; this matches the extracted claim, so extraction is faithful, but the passage cannot corroborate its own claim.[2]

Context. The Delaware State Fire Commission report gives aggregate insurance premium estimates for fire companies in 2016 (about 4.8 million dollars total), not any individual vehicle's premium, so it does not address this claim.[1]

Context. The trucking-insurance cost guides cover commercial semi-truck and owner-operator policies (roughly 9,000 to 28,000 dollars per year), a different vehicle type and market, so they neither confirm nor refute an 800-dollar fire truck premium.[3][4][5][6]

Sources

6 sources: 1 primary, 5 not rated

  1. 1[PDF] 2016-Fire-Service-Annual-Report ... - Delaware State Fire Commissionstatefirecommission.delaware.gov · primary source · cited for: context
  2. 2Our Craziest Deployment & Police Stories ft. Angry Cops & Joe | Unsubscribe Podcast Ep 281youtube.com · not rated · cited for: context
  3. 3Trucking Insurance Cost Guide: What You'll Actually Pay in ...rmstruckers.com · not rated · cited for: context
  4. 4Average Cost of Trucking Insurance: A 2026 Breakdowntruckwriters.com · not rated · cited for: context
  5. 5Owner-Operator Truck Insurance Cost Calculatortruckmargin.com · not rated · cited for: context
  6. 6Owner Operator Truck Insurance Cost Statistics for 2026atob.com · not rated · cited for: context

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