Carrier profile · USDOT 2095642 · MC-731221 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

STERLING LOGISTICS CO

31 power unitsavg 5.3 yrMulti-region · 10 statesSTERLING HTS, MI88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-731221 ACTIVEHAZMAT
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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 8.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 25 vehicle and 30 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

11.1% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 6.1 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

28 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '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
≈0.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 31-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
31
Inspections · 24 mo
30
Annualized
≈15 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

55%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
6%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
2%
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.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 2 OOS
  • 172.502 Other violationOther1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

7 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 27, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 26 total · 3 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251001
20242012
20234004
20223022
20202012
20194014
20185115
20161001
20151010
20132012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 5, 2026OH00Yes
Oct 31, 2025TX00Yes
Nov 12, 2024TX02Yes
Jan 12, 2024AR00Yes
Aug 22, 2023TN00Yes
Apr 21, 2023IN00Yes
Mar 17, 2023TX00Yes
Mar 4, 2023MI00Yes
Dec 3, 2022AR00Yes
May 18, 2022AR01Yes
Apr 8, 2022TX01No
Aug 2, 2020MI00Yes
Jun 28, 2020AR01Yes
Jun 25, 2019MI00Yes
May 10, 2019IN00Yes
Apr 25, 2019AR02Yes
Feb 25, 2019MI00Yes
Dec 6, 2018TX00Yes
Nov 27, 2018AL00Yes
Oct 3, 2018TX10Yes
Sep 7, 2018IN00Yes
Jul 9, 2018MI01Yes
Nov 22, 2016IN00Yes
Feb 21, 2015OH01No
Oct 31, 2013MI01Yes