Carrier profile · USDOT 2425119 · MC-835573 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

MERIDA TRANSPORT LLC

DBA NAKUROI

22 power unitsavg 10.4 yrMulti-region · 9 statesBIRMINGHAM, AL74/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-835573 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 50.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 24 vehicle and 45 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

66.7% · 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 13.6 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

43 inspections · 24 mo · busiest month Dec '24 · 4

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 22-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
22
Inspections · 24 mo
45
Annualized
≈23 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

71%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
91%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
15%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
98%
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 Maintenance43 · 10 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance28 · 15 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving27 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance14 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance9 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

48 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 29, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

25ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
9False logs
9Drove over hours

Trending worse — 84% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 22 total · 2 in 24 mo

22
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20242012
20232012
20225015
20213013
20203003
20191001
20181001
20173023
20161011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 16, 2025TN00Yes
Nov 20, 2024FL00Yes
Jun 5, 2024AL01Yes
Dec 5, 2023GA00Yes
Feb 21, 2023GA01Yes
Dec 20, 2022LA00Yes
Sep 19, 2022AL00Yes
Aug 10, 2022AL00Yes
Jul 19, 2022AL01Yes
May 22, 2022NC00Yes
Nov 9, 2021GA00Yes
Aug 6, 2021NC01Yes
Feb 19, 2021MS00Yes
Dec 1, 2020NC00Yes
Apr 6, 2020AL00Yes
Apr 2, 2020TN00Yes
Sep 4, 2019AL00Yes
Jan 5, 2018AL00Yes
Nov 6, 2017TX00Yes
Sep 7, 2017LA01Yes
Apr 17, 2017VA01Yes
Dec 5, 2016SC01Yes