Carrier profile · USDOT 2960691 · MC-4474 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Sea Star Intermodal Inc

139 power unitsavg 4.5 yrNational · 29 statesSTOCKTON, CA63/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-4474 INACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksseastarintermodal.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 25.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 185 vehicle and 403 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

26.8% · 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 2.1 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

404 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 47

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
≈1.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 139-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
139
Inspections · 24 mo
404
Annualized
≈202 / yr
Coverage
≈1.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

93%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
98%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
67%
Driver Fitness
Alert
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
77%
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 Driving194 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance157 · 27 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance65 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance57 · 11 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance41 · 27 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance25 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance25 · 5 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance24 · 6 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving22 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance20 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

252 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Sep 6, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

65ELD device issues
26No log / no ELD
105False logs
23Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 19 total · 17 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
17
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
2025140314
20243003
20182002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Aug 21, 2025KS00Yes
Aug 20, 2025CA00Yes
Jul 14, 2025NC00Yes
Jun 22, 2025IN00Yes
Jun 20, 2025WY00Yes
Jun 12, 2025IA00Yes
May 10, 2025NV01Yes
Apr 12, 2025AZ00Yes
Mar 8, 2025TX00Yes
Feb 19, 2025AR00Yes
Feb 15, 2025OH03Yes
Feb 13, 2025UT01Yes
Jan 17, 2025CA00Yes
Jan 11, 2025OH00Yes
Dec 27, 2024CA00Yes
Oct 30, 2024TX00Yes
Oct 21, 2024AZ00Yes
Dec 17, 2018PA00Yes
Nov 22, 2018OH00Yes