Carrier profile · USDOT 230887 · MC-1203739 · Updated Jul 19, 2026

Stern Oil Co Inc

DBA STERN

38 power unitsavg 14.1 yrRegional · 7 statesFREEMAN, SD81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1203739 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 25.0%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 — 20 vehicle and 39 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 27.0 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

38 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 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 38-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
38
Inspections · 24 mo
39
Annualized
≈20 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

3%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
9%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
55%
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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 68 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 26 total · 2 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252002
20222002
20211001
20202002
20194013
20172102
20141001
20131001
20122002
20101001
20091001
20081001
20062002
20051011
20042012
20001001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 4, 2025NE00Yes
Feb 13, 2025SD00Yes
Oct 19, 2022SD00Yes
Apr 21, 2022MO00Yes
Nov 1, 2021SD00Yes
Dec 11, 2020NE00Yes
Dec 4, 2020SD00Yes
Dec 13, 2019SD00Yes
Oct 21, 2019IA00Yes
Sep 9, 2019SD00Yes
Jul 25, 2019SD01No
Nov 20, 2017SD10Yes
Jul 20, 2017SD00Yes
Mar 27, 2014SD00Yes
Oct 28, 2013IA00Yes
Oct 22, 2012SD00Yes
Feb 13, 2012SD00Yes
Dec 11, 2010SD00Yes
Dec 21, 2009SD00Yes
Apr 2, 2008SD00Yes
Mar 13, 2006SD00Yes
Feb 6, 2006SD00Yes
Oct 12, 2005SD01Yes
Dec 10, 2004SD01Yes
Oct 11, 2004SD00Yes