Carrier profile · USDOT 2531849 · MC-892300 · Updated Jul 22, 2026

ELLINGTON TRANSPORTATION LLC

14 power unitsavg 9.7 yrRegional · 3 statesHILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC80/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-892300 ACTIVE
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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 50.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 4 vehicle and 28 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

66.7% · 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 20.8 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

25 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 3

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
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 14-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
14
Inspections · 24 mo
28
Annualized
≈14 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

90%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
81%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
53%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
82%
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 Driving26 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

34 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 14, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

19ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
2False logs
12Drove over hours

Trending worse — 74% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 21 total · 5 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252012
20243013
20235025
20223023
20212011
20204014
20191001
20151011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 20, 2025GA00Yes
Jul 17, 2025GA04Yes
Oct 23, 2024FL00Yes
Oct 22, 2024GA01Yes
Oct 12, 2024GA00Yes
Nov 17, 2023FL00Yes
Aug 25, 2023GA00Yes
Jun 27, 2023GA01Yes
Apr 5, 2023FL02Yes
Feb 3, 2023GA00Yes
Dec 14, 2022GA01Yes
Mar 30, 2022FL01Yes
Jan 17, 2022FL00Yes
Dec 6, 2021GA00Yes
Mar 5, 2021GA02No
Nov 30, 2020FL00Yes
Jul 15, 2020FL00Yes
Jun 2, 2020GA00Yes
Mar 28, 2020GA01Yes
Sep 4, 2019GA00Yes
Feb 12, 2015GA01Yes