Carrier profile · USDOT 263035 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

STAR CONSTRUCTION LLC

490 power unitsavg 5.7 yrRegional · 5 statesKNOXVILLE, TN81/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY

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 29.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 47 vehicle and 60 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 19.4 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

55 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 6

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 490-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
490
Inspections · 24 mo
60
Annualized
30 / yr
Coverage
0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

2%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
9%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
73%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
30%
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 Driving28 · 0 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving12 · 11 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 6 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 8 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 5 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness5 · 4 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 4 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness4 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 20, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 60 total · 6 in 24 mo

60
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
30
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254034
20241001
20234014
20225015
20215035
20201001
20193003
20183023
20174014
20165044
20154014
20132012
20112122
20101001
20081001
20074032
20063033
20041011
20031011
20022002
20011011
19991011
19961011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 20, 2026AL00Yes
Oct 24, 2025TN01Yes
Oct 21, 2025TN01Yes
Jul 29, 2025AL01Yes
May 22, 2025MO00Yes
Sep 13, 2024MO00Yes
Nov 16, 2023AL01Yes
Aug 21, 2023MS00Yes
May 18, 2023KY00Yes
Feb 9, 2023TN00Yes
Aug 8, 2022AL04Yes
Aug 4, 2022TN00Yes
Jun 13, 2022AL00Yes
Mar 21, 2022MO00Yes
Jan 10, 2022AL00Yes
Dec 16, 2021TN00Yes
Oct 19, 2021MS01Yes
Jun 9, 2021AL00Yes
Apr 4, 2021KY01Yes
Jan 16, 2021AL01Yes
Sep 29, 2020AL00Yes
Nov 4, 2019TN00Yes
Feb 26, 2019TN00Yes
Feb 14, 2019KY00Yes
Nov 6, 2018AL00Yes