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THE MORNING STAR TRUCKING CO LLC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 27.7% (24-mo)347 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.3% (24-mo)308 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

0.0% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 17.0 pts across the window — latest under the 22.26% national benchmark.

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 387-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
387
Inspections · 24 mo
373
Annualized
≈187 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

5%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
24%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
65%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
58%
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 Driving405 · 31 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance133 · 54 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance90 · 33 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance57
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance55 · 10 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance44 · 15 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance41 · 10 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance27
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance22 · 1 OOS
  • 393.70 Coupling devices / fifth wheelVehicle Maintenance15 · 6 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

43 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/11/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

16ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 94% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 188 total · 32 in 24 mo

188
Total crashes
32
In last 24 mo
9
Fatal
52
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
2025170317
2024160416
2023190519
2022242424
2021232523
2020140614
2019110311
2018162516
2017110011
2016143514
20152201122
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/27/2026CA01Yes
09/27/2025CA00Yes
09/20/2025CA01Yes
09/20/2025CA00Yes
09/12/2025CA00Yes
09/03/2025CA00Yes
08/29/2025CA00Yes
08/28/2025CA01Yes
08/26/2025CA00Yes
08/24/2025CA00Yes
08/24/2025CA00Yes
08/14/2025CA00Yes
08/12/2025CA00Yes
08/09/2025CA00Yes
08/02/2025CA00Yes
07/30/2025CA00Yes
07/30/2025CA00Yes
07/26/2025CA01Yes
10/13/2024CA00Yes
10/10/2024CA00Yes
10/08/2024CA01Yes
09/28/2024CA01Yes
09/27/2024CA00Yes
09/15/2024CA02Yes
09/06/2024CA00Yes