Carrier profile · USDOT 1812747 · MC-658488 · Updated Aug 7, 2026

MERRELL ENTERPRISES LLC

DBA MPA

14 power unitsavg 10.3 yrMulti-region · 9 statesHAYTI, MO93/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-658488 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 30.0%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 — 10 vehicle and 28 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 35.0 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

26 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 5

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
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 14-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
14
Inspections · 24 mo
28
Annualized
≈14 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

21%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
28%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
64%
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.

  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 4 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 24, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

3 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 28 total · 0 in 24 mo

28
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241011
20231011
20223013
20195035
20188058
20172002
20152102
20141001
20121001
20111001
20101101
20092002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 8, 2024IL01Yes
Feb 20, 2023MO01Yes
Sep 22, 2022AL00Yes
May 17, 2022MO01Yes
Feb 24, 2022MI00Yes
Oct 24, 2019AR00Yes
Sep 10, 2019KS01Yes
Jul 1, 2019TX01Yes
Jun 14, 2019MS00Yes
Mar 26, 2019MO01Yes
Dec 15, 2018IL02Yes
Oct 23, 2018MO00Yes
Oct 16, 2018LA00Yes
Jun 19, 2018IN01Yes
Apr 24, 2018MO02Yes
Feb 27, 2018AR00Yes
Feb 8, 2018MO01Yes
Jan 12, 2018IN01Yes
Jun 7, 2017AR00Yes
Apr 19, 2017TN00Yes
Sep 9, 2015AR10Yes
Mar 16, 2015AR00Yes
Jul 13, 2014AR00Yes
Feb 28, 2012TX00Yes
Oct 18, 2011AR00Yes