Business owners can purchase commercial automobile insurance, just as individuals can purchase personal automobile insurance. You can purchase commercial auto insurance either as a separate (mono-line) policy, or as part of a commercial package policy. The coverage includes both physical damage and liability. The most common coverage form, the Business Auto Coverage Form, insures company cars, vans, trucks, and other vehicles for most types of businesses. Included among the covered businesses are those that use vehicles to transport goods, carry passengers, and lease vehicles to others. Coverage forms also exist for certain specific types of businesses and situations.

The Garage Coverage Form insures garages, auto dealers, repair shops, service stations, and other businesses that have temporary possession of their customers' vehicles. The Truckers Coverage Form applies to businesses that transport goods for others. The Motor Carrier Coverage Form insures businesses that transport goods generally, whether for themselves or others. The Business Auto Physical Damage Form covers the relatively unusual circumstance of a business that only displays and stores, but never uses, its vehicles. It would cover, for instance, an automobile museum. This form provides only insurance for physical damage.

Business auto policies, or the Business Auto Coverage Form, provide physical damage and liability coverage for most types of vehicles and most types of businesses. For physical damage coverage you have three options: basic collision and overturn coverage, comprehensive coverage, or specified cause of loss coverage. Basic collision and overturn coverage covers damage from impact with an object or vehicle, or from a rollover. It can include glass breakage that specifically results from a collision or overturn. As with personal auto policies, comprehensive insures for more or less all risks, including glass breakage, hitting birds and other animals, fire, theft, vandalism, floods, and falling objects. In contrast, specified cause of loss covers particular causes, such as fire, lightning, explosion, theft, hail, windstorm, earthquake, flood, vandalism or mischief, or various accidents involving a vehicle transporting the insured auto. Liability coverage is generally similar to that in personal auto policies.