Carrier profile · USDOT 2918561 · MC-983865 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Northstar Bus Lines LLC

DBA AMERICAN STUDENT TRANSPORTATION

0 power unitsavg 11.5 yrLocal · 1 statesMAPLE GROVE, MN88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-983865 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksnorthstarbuslines.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 20.0%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 — 20 vehicle and 29 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

10.0% · 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 20.7 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

36 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '25 · 7

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.

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
official FMCSA
Hours-of-Service
0violations
official FMCSA
60%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
official FMCSA
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
official FMCSA

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 Driving66 · 28 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 50 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 52 total · 14 in 24 mo

52
Total crashes
14
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
18
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20265045
20255024
20247017
20237036
20222022
20216006
20203111
20194014
20187027
20175014
20161011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 3, 2026MN00Yes
May 12, 2026MN01Yes
Apr 23, 2026MN01Yes
Jan 22, 2026MN01Yes
Jan 7, 2026MN01Yes
Dec 18, 2025MN00Yes
Sep 9, 2025MN02Yes
Sep 2, 2025MN02No
Apr 17, 2025MN00Yes
Mar 11, 2025MN00Yes
Dec 17, 2024MN01Yes
Oct 30, 2024MN00Yes
Oct 25, 2024MN00Yes
Oct 7, 2024MN00Yes
Aug 6, 2024MN00Yes
May 1, 2024MN00Yes
Jan 9, 2024MN00Yes
Nov 30, 2023MN00Yes
Oct 25, 2023MN00Yes
Jul 31, 2023MN02Yes
Jul 21, 2023MN06Yes
May 24, 2023MN00Yes
Apr 15, 2023MN01No
Feb 16, 2023MN00Yes
Oct 25, 2022MN02Yes