Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2076277

MLC LLC

CARROLLTON, TX 94

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 17.9%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 1.8%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 28 vehicle and 56 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.2% · 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 9.9 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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 35-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.

Registered power units: 35
Inspections · 24 mo: 56
Annualized: ≈28 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

40%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

43%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

11%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

45%

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 Driving14
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 8 OOS
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance6
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5
395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance5
392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4
393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3

ELD & hours-of-service

20 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/13/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues

1No log / no ELD

4False logs

5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 56% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 21 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Injury	Tow
2025	1	1	1
2024	1	0	1
2023	2	2	2
2021	6	1	6
2020	2	0	2
2019	3	0	3
2018	2	1	1
2017	2	0	2
2016	1	0	1
2011	1	0	1

Date	State	Injuries	Tow-away
06/04/2025	TX	1	Yes
03/25/2024	NE	0	Yes
12/26/2023	OH	1	Yes
02/27/2023	OK	1	Yes
09/21/2021	TX	0	Yes
09/09/2021	TX	3	Yes
07/19/2021	AL	0	Yes
07/16/2021	TX	0	Yes
07/16/2021	LA	0	Yes
04/30/2021	TX	0	Yes
03/18/2020	TX	0	Yes
01/08/2020	MS	0	Yes
10/12/2019	ND	0	Yes
04/11/2019	ID	0	Yes
02/05/2019	TX	0	Yes
10/17/2018	TX	1	No
05/18/2018	SC	0	Yes
09/20/2017	OK	0	Yes
03/02/2017	LA	0	Yes
08/03/2016	MS	0	Yes
04/19/2011	LA	0	Yes