Carrier profile · USDOT 1223529 · MC-537879 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Hostetler Trucking Inc

11 power unitsavg 15.5 yrLocal · 1 statesPLAIN CITY, OH50/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-537879 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linkshostetlertrucking.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 —24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 0 vehicle and 4 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

4 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 11-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
11
Inspections · 24 mo
4
Annualized
≈2 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

27%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
clean · 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.

  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 4 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 15 total · 1 in 24 mo

15
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20221001
20171001
20121010
20113023
20101011
20092012
20081011
20073023
20051001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Aug 28, 2025PA00Yes
Aug 9, 2022OH00Yes
Oct 11, 2017PA00Yes
Aug 21, 2012VA01No
Jul 20, 2011OH01Yes
Jun 26, 2011OH00Yes
Jan 13, 2011OH01Yes
Dec 14, 2010OH01Yes
Oct 6, 2009TN00Yes
Jan 6, 2009OH01Yes
Nov 13, 2008IL01Yes
Aug 13, 2007OH02Yes
May 15, 2007MI00Yes
Mar 5, 2007NY01Yes
Jan 8, 2005IN00Yes