Carrier profile · USDOT 1446544 · MC-603298 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Strange Trucking LLC

4 power unitsLocal · 2 statesMARION, IN50/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-603298 ACTIVE

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 100.0%24-mo cumulative

050%

Driver OOS 33.3%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 1 vehicle and 3 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

3 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 1

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

≈0.4 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 4-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 4
Inspections · 24 mo: 3
Annualized: ≈2 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

37%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

54%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

9measure

SMS · per-BASIC

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 Driving3 · 0 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 1 OOS
393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 13, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues

0No log / no ELD

0False logs

0Drove over hours

Crash history· 15 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2024	2	0	0	2
2023	2	0	0	2
2020	1	0	0	1
2019	3	0	1	3
2018	1	0	1	1
2017	1	0	0	1
2015	1	0	0	1
2012	1	1	0	1
2011	1	0	0	1
2008	2	0	0	2

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Aug 20, 2024	IN	0	0	Yes
Jun 27, 2024	IN	0	0	Yes
May 8, 2023	IN	0	0	Yes
Mar 15, 2023	IN	0	0	Yes
Feb 20, 2020	IL	0	0	Yes
Sep 26, 2019	IL	0	2	Yes
Jan 3, 2019	IN	0	0	Yes
Jan 3, 2019	IN	0	0	Yes
May 8, 2018	IN	0	1	Yes
Feb 22, 2017	IN	0	0	Yes
Feb 2, 2015	IN	0	0	Yes
Dec 5, 2012	IN	2	0	Yes
Aug 21, 2011	IN	0	0	Yes
Nov 13, 2008	IN	0	0	Yes
Apr 23, 2008	IL	0	0	Yes