Carrier profile · USDOT 3529056 · MC-1174207 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

MICHAEL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES LLC

90 power unitsavg 5.5 yrNational · 30 statesTUCSON, AZ81/100
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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 29.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 94 vehicle and 203 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

39.1% · 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 2.8 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

197 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 14

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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 90-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
90
Inspections · 24 mo
203
Annualized
≈102 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

88%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
84%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
60%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
63%
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 Driving74 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance43 · 12 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance33 · 22 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance24 · 6 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance18 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance13 · 9 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance13 · 5 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

81 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 17, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

33ELD device issues
16No log / no ELD
23False logs
8Drove over hours

Trending worse — 73% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 18 total · 12 in 24 mo

18
Total crashes
12
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264114
20256016
20243013
20223003
20212002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 2, 2026WV00Yes
Jun 23, 2026OH00Yes
Apr 7, 2026MO10Yes
Jan 24, 2026TX01Yes
Dec 10, 2025TX01Yes
Nov 24, 2025CA00Yes
Oct 25, 2025LA00Yes
Jul 12, 2025TX00Yes
May 5, 2025AZ00Yes
Jan 13, 2025TX00Yes
Dec 17, 2024MO00Yes
Aug 25, 2024AZ00Yes
Jun 24, 2024OH01Yes
Oct 9, 2022TX00Yes
Aug 19, 2022TX00Yes
Jun 7, 2022OK00Yes
Dec 15, 2021WY00Yes
May 4, 2021TX00Yes