Carrier profile · USDOT 1212424 · MC-497964 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Mike Palmer Petroleum Services Inc

DBA PETROLEUM SERVICES

25 power unitsavg 9.1 yrLocal · 2 statesWILLISTON, ND74/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-497964 ACTIVE
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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 40.9%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 — 22 vehicle and 31 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

28.6% · 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 11.3 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

30 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '26 · 6

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
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 25-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
25
Inspections · 24 mo
31
Annualized
≈16 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

24%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
25%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
59%
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 Maintenance20 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 7 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 21, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

3ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 16 total · 1 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
20181001
20145133
20133023
20113031
20101010
20091001
20081011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 1, 2024ND00Yes
Dec 28, 2018IA00Yes
Aug 10, 2014ND01Yes
Mar 26, 2014ND02No
Mar 13, 2014ND11No
Jan 3, 2014ND00Yes
Jan 3, 2014ND00Yes
Dec 6, 2013ND02Yes
Dec 6, 2013ND02Yes
Sep 17, 2013ND00Yes
Nov 18, 2011ND01Yes
Aug 12, 2011ND01No
Jun 3, 2011ND01No
Nov 24, 2010ND02No
Jan 19, 2009ND00Yes
Dec 21, 2008ND01Yes