Carrier profile · USDOT 2820483 · MC-940443 · Updated Jul 26, 2026

Rocky Mountain Crude Oil LLC

48 power unitsavg 11.3 yrRegional · 4 statesBILLINGS, MT87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-940443 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksrmcrudeoil.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 32.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 67 vehicle and 81 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

42.9% · 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 2.3 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

79 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.

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 48-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
48
Inspections · 24 mo
81
Annualized
≈41 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

7%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
14%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
8%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
76%
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.

  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance37 · 6 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance37 · 8 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving35 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance20 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance20 · 10 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance17 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance16 · 15 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance12 · 1 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

12 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 30, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 78% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 25 total · 6 in 24 mo

25
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253033
20245034
20224004
20213003
20204014
20183003
20171011
20161001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 3, 2026WY00Yes
Jul 16, 2025MT01Yes
Jan 24, 2025MT01Yes
Jan 10, 2025ND01Yes
Nov 8, 2024TX00Yes
Aug 28, 2024TX01Yes
Jul 2, 2024TX01No
Jun 19, 2024WY00Yes
Jan 30, 2024KS01Yes
Nov 14, 2022ND00Yes
Sep 14, 2022TX00Yes
Aug 23, 2022NJ00Yes
Mar 29, 2022ND00Yes
Dec 25, 2021ND00Yes
Jan 20, 2021WY00Yes
Jan 5, 2021WY00Yes
Dec 27, 2020MT01Yes
Oct 25, 2020WY00Yes
Apr 23, 2020ND00Yes
Feb 27, 2020CO00Yes
Nov 27, 2018ND00Yes
Nov 19, 2018WY00Yes
Sep 14, 2018TX00Yes
Dec 20, 2017MT02Yes
May 21, 2016WY00Yes