Carrier profile · USDOT 779981 · MC-365614 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

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0 power unitsavg 4.7 yrMulti-region · 11 statesACCOKEEK, MD88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-365614 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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Safety

Roadside out-of-service rates versus the national benchmark, inspection and crash trends, decoded violation themes, and ELD / hours-of-service integrity — the full safety picture behind the verdict.

Out-of-service rate· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 232 vehicle and 60 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

0.0% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

238 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 57

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

22%
Unsafe Driving
official FMCSA
34%
Hours-of-Service
official FMCSA
8%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
official FMCSA
Vehicle Maintenance
.06measure
SMS · per-BASIC

Percentile = standing among same-exposure peers (higher = worse). FMCSA publishes percentiles for only some carriers (shown official); elsewhere we show a Vektor peer-percentile estimate, or the absolute SMS measure when there are too few inspections to rank.

Violation themes· decoded · grouped by BASIC

What this carrier actually gets cited for — FMCSA violation codes decoded into plain English, ranked by frequency.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving19 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 390.9 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regs (general)Unsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.83 Exhaust systemVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS
  • 395.5 Hours of service / ELDHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 20, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

2 ELD violations in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 16 total · 5 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254033
20222002
20211010
20193012
20181010
20171011
20161001
20141011
20051101
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 12, 2026NJ00Yes
Nov 20, 2025DC02Yes
Oct 8, 2025MD00Yes
Sep 4, 2025NY01No
May 4, 2025NJ04Yes
Sep 23, 2022NC00Yes
Jun 12, 2022MD00Yes
Aug 14, 2021NJ03No
Sep 11, 2019MD00Yes
Aug 17, 2019MD01No
Jun 4, 2019DC00Yes
Oct 3, 2018DC01No
Jul 18, 2017VA02Yes
Jul 29, 2016VA00Yes
Jun 10, 2014SC010Yes
Sep 4, 2005FL10Yes