Carrier profile · USDOT 572695 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Starnes Pallet Service Inc

13 power unitsavg 12.3 yrLocal · 2 statesCHARLOTTE, NC94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
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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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 7 vehicle and 18 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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

18 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 4

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 13-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
13
Inspections · 24 mo
18
Annualized
≈9 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

46%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
23%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
14%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 390.17 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regs (general)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 27 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 11 total · 2 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20243013
20231001
20221001
20173021
20151001
19991011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 1, 2025NC00Yes
Nov 29, 2024NC05Yes
Jun 4, 2024SC00Yes
Mar 27, 2024SC00Yes
Mar 23, 2023GA00Yes
Jan 27, 2022NC00Yes
Dec 21, 2017SC01No
Sep 12, 2017NC00Yes
Jul 18, 2017NC01No
Apr 20, 2015NC00Yes
Aug 12, 1999NC01Yes