Carrier profile · USDOT 2637249 · MC-918600 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Gemma Carriers LLC

11 power unitsavg 7.1 yrMulti-region · 9 statesLAREDO, TX68/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-918600 ACTIVERATED CONDITIONAL
Verified linksgemmacarriers.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 35.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 20.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 20 vehicle and 29 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

75.0% · 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 18.0 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

26 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 11-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
11
Inspections · 24 mo
29
Annualized
≈15 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

54%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
60%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
84%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
80%
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 Driving21 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance20 · 6 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance14 · 6 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

21 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 13, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

6ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
9False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 13 total · 1 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20221001
20212012
20201011
20191011
20184004
20173003
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 6, 2026TN00Yes
Sep 30, 2022VA00Yes
Dec 10, 2021LA01Yes
Apr 28, 2021MD00Yes
Jul 27, 2020GA01Yes
Jul 18, 2019GA02Yes
Sep 25, 2018TX00Yes
Apr 25, 2018TX00Yes
Apr 24, 2018TX00Yes
Feb 15, 2018TX00Yes
Nov 22, 2017TX00Yes
Nov 22, 2017TX00Yes
Nov 8, 2017TX00Yes