Carrier profile · USDOT 925442 · MC-399615 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

EASTERN STAR

100 power unitsavg 4.2 yrNational · 16 statesDULUTH, GA94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-399615 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 19.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 79 vehicle and 210 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

5.3% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 14.5 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

207 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 13

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 100-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
100
Inspections · 24 mo
210
Annualized
≈105 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

47%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
72%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
39%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
29%
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 Driving48 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance17 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 11 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8 · 4 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

45 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 19, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

29ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
4False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 69% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 50 total · 6 in 24 mo

50
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
19
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263013
20252002
20243003
20234004
20223003
20211001
20202002
20192002
20182012
20173023
20162012
20154044
20141001
20126036
20112012
20101011
20092012
20082012
20071001
20061011
20032022
20021001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 21, 2026AL00Yes
Mar 24, 2026GA00Yes
Feb 5, 2026TN01Yes
Jul 8, 2025GA00Yes
Jan 24, 2025GA00Yes
Dec 21, 2024VA00Yes
Jul 29, 2024NC00Yes
Jan 4, 2024FL00Yes
Dec 7, 2023GA00Yes
Jul 25, 2023GA00Yes
Jun 17, 2023GA00Yes
Jan 11, 2023MD00Yes
Sep 7, 2022GA00Yes
Jun 7, 2022GA00Yes
Mar 31, 2022GA00Yes
Oct 26, 2021NC00Yes
Sep 15, 2020VA00Yes
Jul 30, 2020AL00Yes
Nov 1, 2019AL00Yes
Apr 30, 2019NC00Yes
May 25, 2018GA01Yes
May 11, 2018MD00Yes
Nov 20, 2017GA01Yes
Aug 24, 2017GA01Yes
May 4, 2017OH00Yes