Vehicles
Cars, trucks, and SUVs, motorcycles, RVs and travel trailers, ATVs and powersports.
Fields on every file
Veblen decodes the VIN into year, make, model, trim, engine, and drivetrain, then adds government safety ratings, open recalls, and complaint history. You price against book values, live retail listings, and sold collector-car auction results. Which of those you lean on depends on where the vehicle trades.
- VIN, year, make, model, trim
- Odometer reading and title brand
- Engine, drivetrain, transmission, body style
- Open recalls, complaint count, crash and rollover ratings
- Damage severity and pre-loss condition
Governing standard
USPAP Standards 7 and 8, alongside state insurance regulation and the policy appraisal clause
Every comparable lists an identifier and a seller contact, taxes and transfer fees are itemized at the governing state rate, and the report states the appraisal clause posture.
Credentials
- Required to practice
- ASCAA certification
- Optional designations
- Certified Auto Appraiser
Source documents
Titles, registrations, bills of sale, window stickers, service and modification receipts, inspection reports, vehicle history reports, prior appraisals.
Report types
- Total loss
- Diminished value
- Fair market value
- Pre-purchase
- Insurance scheduling
The finished report
A total loss report includes the comparable adjustment grid, the loss valuation worksheet, and the analysis of the insurer offer, alongside the reconciliation and certification in every report.
Every report prints the cover, letter of transmittal, executive summary, subject identification, assignment and scope of work, condition analysis, methodology, comparable analysis, reconciliation, certification, signature, sources, supporting documents, the legal notice, the appraiser certification appendix, and a verification page whose QR code resolves to the record.