Carrier profile · USDOT 279616 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Strauss Dairy Ingredients Inc

11 power unitsNORTH MANCHESTER, IN50/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksstraussdairy.comFMCSA SAFER

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

Vehicle OOS —24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS —24-mo cumulative
030%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 0 vehicle and 0 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

No roadside inspections on the FMCSA record in this window

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
4measure
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 Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.8 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 5 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 8 total · 1 in 24 mo

8
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20231001
20161001
20151001
20141011
20021001
19981001
19931001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 24, 2025OH01Yes
Sep 1, 2023MI00Yes
Mar 9, 2016IN00Yes
Jan 20, 2015IN00Yes
Aug 30, 2014IN01Yes
Dec 20, 2002IN00Yes
Jan 3, 1998IN00Yes
Oct 8, 1993IN00Yes