Carrier profile · USDOT 159739 · MC-417884 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

BORDER STATE INDUSTRIES INC

DBA BORDER STATES

589 power unitsavg 5 yrNational · 31 statesFARGO, ND88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-417884 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksborderstates.comFMCSA SAFER

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 7.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 186 vehicle and 288 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

9.1% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 9.4 pts 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

280 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '26 · 24

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.

Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal

Inspection coverage

How heavily FMCSA inspects this fleet for its size — it tells you how much to trust the safety signals above. Thin coverage on a young authority is a fraud signal nobody else surfaces.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 589-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
589
Inspections · 24 mo
288
Annualized
≈144 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

14%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
30%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
9%
Vehicle Maintenance
Vektor peer est.

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 Driving60 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance23 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 9 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance12 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 2 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance7 · 7 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

18 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 6, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

7ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
3False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 57% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 51 total · 5 in 24 mo

51
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
5
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20252002
20243112
20232002
20223023
20213013
20201001
20194024
20184004
20171101
20161001
20153223
20144004
20135105
20115015
20102002
20091001
20063013
20031010
19971010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 23, 2026MD00Yes
Jan 14, 2026WI00Yes
Sep 18, 2025OR00Yes
Jul 28, 2025IN00Yes
Oct 23, 2024TX10No
May 9, 2024IL01Yes
Apr 30, 2024MN00Yes
May 11, 2023ND00Yes
Mar 14, 2023WA00Yes
Sep 16, 2022MN01Yes
Jun 13, 2022MN01Yes
Mar 30, 2022MN00Yes
Jul 26, 2021NE00Yes
Jul 12, 2021UT02Yes
Apr 19, 2021MN00Yes
Jan 31, 2020AZ00Yes
Dec 6, 2019AZ00Yes
Sep 26, 2019TN02Yes
Mar 15, 2019NC01Yes
Jan 28, 2019MN00Yes
Nov 30, 2018NC00Yes
Sep 11, 2018MN00Yes
Apr 27, 2018UT00Yes
Mar 16, 2018WI00Yes
Jul 5, 2017SD10Yes