Carrier profile · USDOT 1759560 · MC-643366 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Minstar Transport Inc

95 power unitsavg 4.7 yrNational · 33 statesEAGAN, MN63/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-643366 INACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 28.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 57 vehicle and 152 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 1.9 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

145 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 95-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
95
Inspections · 24 mo
152
Annualized
≈76 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

53%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
43%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
12%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
58%
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 Driving71 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance32 · 25 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance17 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance9 · 3 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

31 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 10, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

22ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
2False logs
7Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 113 total · 9 in 24 mo

113
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
44
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20259039
20243003
20236126
20226046
20214024
2020120412
201910139
20188038
20176056
20167017
20159028
20147037
20137057
20128037
20116025
20103113
20091001
20081011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 24, 2025MO00Yes
Nov 16, 2025NC00Yes
Nov 10, 2025NC01Yes
Oct 30, 2025TN00Yes
Oct 18, 2025MT01Yes
Apr 18, 2025MO00Yes
Feb 9, 2025IL00Yes
Feb 3, 2025NE01Yes
Jan 22, 2025MO00Yes
Jan 30, 2024AL00Yes
Jan 16, 2024MS00Yes
Jan 12, 2024OH00Yes
Dec 16, 2023MO02Yes
Nov 28, 2023IA01Yes
Apr 5, 2023IA20Yes
Mar 27, 2023TX00Yes
Feb 14, 2023WI00Yes
Jan 12, 2023GA00Yes
Dec 9, 2022WI00Yes
Dec 9, 2022WI00Yes
Nov 19, 2022IL02Yes
Jul 9, 2022TN01Yes
Jun 30, 2022MO02Yes
Jun 20, 2022TN01Yes
Sep 11, 2021OH00Yes