Carrier profile · USDOT 295546 · Updated Jul 3, 2026

NORTHERN TREE SERVICE LLC

140 power unitsavg 6.6 yrRegional · 4 statesPALMER, MA88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED CONDITIONALHAZMAT
Verified linksnortherntree.comFMCSA SAFER

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 21.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 9.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 19 vehicle and 43 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 7.9 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

42 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 140-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
140
Inspections · 24 mo
43
Annualized
≈22 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

27%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
11%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
91%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
38%
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 Driving26 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance13 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness5 · 4 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Jan 13, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 21 total · 4 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262021
20251011
20241001
20232012
20222002
20192002
20171001
20161001
20151001
20141011
20131011
20121001
20101001
20091001
20081011
20071011
20031001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 2, 2026MA01Yes
Apr 10, 2026NH01No
Dec 17, 2025MA01Yes
Aug 22, 2024CT00Yes
Oct 27, 2023NH00Yes
Jan 16, 2023MA01Yes
Jun 15, 2022MA00Yes
Mar 4, 2022MA00Yes
Oct 4, 2019MA00Yes
Jan 20, 2019MA00Yes
Apr 13, 2017PA00Yes
May 6, 2016CT00Yes
Dec 22, 2015MA00Yes
Aug 11, 2014MA01Yes
Jan 25, 2013MI01Yes
Jan 31, 2012MA00Yes
Aug 23, 2010MA00Yes
Mar 28, 2009MA00Yes
Aug 27, 2008MA03Yes
Aug 24, 2007MA03Yes
Feb 7, 2003MA00Yes