Carrier profile · USDOT 2024076 · MC-711748 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Portner Trucking LLC

22 power unitsavg 5.4 yrRegional · 6 statesTHURMONT, MD82/100
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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 7.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 45 vehicle and 56 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 23.4 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

54 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 5

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 22-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
22
Inspections · 24 mo
56
Annualized
≈28 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

62%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
22%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
.31measure
SMS · per-BASIC
51%
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 Driving37 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance29 · 7 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance18 · 8 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 8 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance8 · 8 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 100 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 26 total · 5 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20254114
20242012
20232012
20222012
20213003
20202011
20194024
20182002
20171001
20162002
20151001
20111001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 9, 2025MD00Yes
Sep 24, 2025DE03Yes
May 7, 2025MD10Yes
Jan 14, 2025NJ00Yes
Oct 2, 2024MD02Yes
Apr 26, 2024VA00Yes
May 23, 2023MD01Yes
May 18, 2023VA00Yes
Jun 2, 2022VA01Yes
Jan 21, 2022MD00Yes
Aug 13, 2021MD00Yes
May 19, 2021MD00Yes
Feb 3, 2021MD00Yes
Oct 21, 2020DC01No
Jul 30, 2020MD00Yes
Nov 27, 2019MD00Yes
Oct 11, 2019MD01Yes
Aug 29, 2019MD00Yes
Apr 5, 2019VA05Yes
Jul 19, 2018MD00Yes
Jun 29, 2018MD00Yes
Aug 17, 2017MD00Yes
Nov 10, 2016MD00Yes
Jul 7, 2016MD00Yes
Oct 15, 2015MD00Yes