Carrier profile · USDOT 1444698 · MC-546025 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

MARK A SPEIGHT

DBA M & S TRUCKING

3 power unitsavg 19.3 yrLocal · 2 statesTUSCALOOSA, AL74/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-546025 ACTIVERATED CONDITIONAL
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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 72.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 11 vehicle and 14 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

60.0% · 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 38.4 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24-mo monthly · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

14 inspections · 24 mo · busiest month Oct '24 · 3

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections over 24 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
3
Inspections · 24 mo
14
Annualized
≈7 / yr
Coverage
≈2.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

76%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
23%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
47%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
96%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance25 · 6 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 12 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance12 · 1 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 28, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 8 total · 1 in 24 mo

8
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20241011
20232012
20211001
20181011
20171001
20131001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 5, 2025GA06Yes
Mar 18, 2024AL01Yes
Oct 5, 2023GA00Yes
Jan 12, 2023GA01Yes
Feb 24, 2021AL00Yes
May 4, 2018GA01Yes
Dec 18, 2017GA00Yes
Apr 1, 2013AL00Yes