Carrier profile · USDOT 1801948 · MC-655776 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Dolphin Trucking Services LLC

7 power unitsavg 10.9 yrRegional · 3 statesCALERA, AL100/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-655776 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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 3 vehicle and 9 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 27.1 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

8 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 1

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 7-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
7
Inspections · 24 mo
9
Annualized
≈5 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

33%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
34%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
5.62measure
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 1 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.9 Inspection of motor vehicles in operationVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.26 ELD — required data elementsHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Aug 18, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
1Drove over hours

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 12 total · 0 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
20231001
20222002
20212002
20204024
20182002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 23, 2024TN00Yes
Sep 22, 2023AL00Yes
Mar 5, 2022AL00Yes
Jan 21, 2022GA00Yes
Oct 5, 2021AL00Yes
Sep 28, 2021NC00Yes
Dec 3, 2020AL00Yes
Jul 7, 2020AL03Yes
May 23, 2020GA01Yes
Jan 6, 2020AL00Yes
Sep 14, 2018NC00Yes
Jul 14, 2018AL00Yes