Carrier profile · USDOT 1750706 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Hostetler Trucking LLC

6 power unitsavg 13.2 yrLocal · 2 statesBROWNSVILLE, OR80/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED CONDITIONAL
Verified linksFMCSA 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 62.5%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 — 8 vehicle and 19 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

100.0% · 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 52.6 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

19 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '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
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 6-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
6
Inspections · 24 mo
19
Annualized
≈10 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

54%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
3%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
71%
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 Driving18 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.23 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 387.301 Other violationOther1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Oct 8, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 11 total · 1 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20222002
20211001
20192002
20181011
20171011
20161011
20141001
20121011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 28, 2026OR00Yes
May 5, 2022WA00Yes
Jan 20, 2022WA00Yes
Nov 23, 2021OR00Yes
Dec 23, 2019WA00Yes
Jun 12, 2019OR00Yes
Oct 8, 2018OR01Yes
Sep 11, 2017OR01Yes
Mar 14, 2016OR01Yes
May 14, 2014OR00Yes
Aug 29, 2012OR01Yes