Carrier profile · USDOT 550803 · MC-446095 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

M D Z Trucking LLC

42 power unitsavg 7.3 yrMulti-region · 14 statesSHIPSHEWANA, IN94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-446095 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 7.4%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 — 27 vehicle and 37 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

14.3% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 3.4 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

35 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 4

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 42-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
42
Inspections · 24 mo
37
Annualized
≈19 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

16%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
14%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
11%
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 Driving13 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance8 · 1 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.71 Coupling / towing devicesVehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

11 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 11, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
7No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 33 total · 1 in 24 mo

33
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20232012
20221011
20211001
20202012
20192002
20182012
20171001
20161011
20154004
20121001
20101001
20086016
20062002
20054024
20041011
19991001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 14, 2025NV00Yes
Oct 5, 2023MO00Yes
Aug 20, 2023WI01Yes
Jan 25, 2022IN01Yes
Jun 2, 2021IL00Yes
Sep 15, 2020AR00Yes
Aug 20, 2020IN01Yes
Aug 26, 2019KY00Yes
Mar 14, 2019OK00Yes
Sep 6, 2018OH00Yes
Jul 3, 2018IN05Yes
Dec 12, 2017TX00Yes
Jul 25, 2016IL02Yes
Nov 16, 2015CO00Yes
Jul 17, 2015IN00Yes
Apr 21, 2015CT00Yes
Mar 1, 2015IN00Yes
May 18, 2012OH00Yes
Apr 6, 2010IA00Yes
Jul 15, 2008IN01Yes
Jun 9, 2008ND00Yes
May 20, 2008UT00Yes
May 20, 2008UT00Yes
Mar 8, 2008ND00Yes
Jan 23, 2008WI00Yes