Carrier profile · USDOT 2108787 · MC-735300 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Pinnacle Trucking LLC

DBA PINNACLE FREIGHT

53 power unitsavg 4.9 yrNational · 27 statesFLORENCE, NJ88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-735300 ACTIVEHAZMAT
Verified linkspinnacletruck.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 17.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 57 vehicle and 86 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

17.6% · 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 6.1 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

82 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 9

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 53-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
53
Inspections · 24 mo
86
Annualized
≈43 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

47%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
35%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
2%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
23%
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 Driving24 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 177.834 Other violationOther3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 107.620 Other violationOther2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

11 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 17, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
5Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 26 total · 5 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253102
20243013
20223013
20212002
20203013
20185035
20171011
20161111
20152022
20132002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 18, 2026PA00Yes
Jun 9, 2025OK10No
Mar 26, 2025AL00Yes
Mar 1, 2025TX00Yes
Sep 10, 2024PA01Yes
Jun 24, 2024PA00Yes
Mar 25, 2024TX00Yes
Nov 29, 2022KY00Yes
Nov 12, 2022TX00Yes
Sep 11, 2022TN02Yes
Oct 18, 2021DE00Yes
Jun 24, 2021GA00Yes
Oct 29, 2020NC00Yes
Jul 27, 2020PA00Yes
May 27, 2020NJ02Yes
Dec 24, 2018NJ01Yes
Dec 20, 2018GA00Yes
Mar 22, 2018PA01Yes
Mar 12, 2018AL00Yes
Mar 2, 2018PA03Yes
Sep 5, 2017GA01Yes
Sep 18, 2016VA12Yes
May 30, 2015PA02Yes
Jan 30, 2015PA02Yes
Dec 1, 2013VA00Yes