Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 507656

NORTH LOOP REEFER LLC

NEW ULM, MN 81

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 25.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 64 vehicle and 110 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

37.5% · 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 19.4 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
0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 58-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
58
Inspections · 24 mo
110
Annualized
55 / yr
Coverage
0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

51%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
78%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
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 Driving38 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance26 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance21 · 8 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance18
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 5 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance10
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance7
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance7
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance5

ELD & hours-of-service

31 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/18/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

10ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
16False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 90% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 71 total · 2 in 24 mo

71
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
27
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262022
20241001
20232111
20212002
20201001
20192012
20188028
20172002
20161001
20152002
20144004
20132002
20113013
20107035
20091011
20084024
20073013
20061001
20054024
20041001
20032012
20022012
20012002
19993033
19984034
19974134
19961001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/27/2026TX01Yes
03/04/2026TX01Yes
05/06/2024IL00Yes
12/02/2023TX11No
04/14/2023MN00Yes
09/30/2021IN00Yes
02/17/2021TX00Yes
04/30/2020IL00Yes
10/14/2019IL02Yes
01/22/2019NJ00Yes
12/06/2018WI00Yes
11/16/2018MT00Yes
10/28/2018OH00Yes
07/19/2018IL00Yes
05/08/2018WI05Yes
03/29/2018MN01Yes
03/28/2018IL00Yes
03/10/2018TX00Yes
12/09/2017NY00Yes
10/29/2017OH00Yes
10/25/2016MN00Yes
12/12/2015IL00Yes
05/22/2015CA00Yes
06/22/2014WI00Yes
03/24/2014NJ00Yes