Carrier profile · USDOT 668556 · FF-5617 · Updated Aug 7, 2026

Tri-starr Management Services Inc

DBA TMSI

84 power unitsavg 4.8 yrRegional · 3 statesFRANKLIN, IN63/100
CARRIER INACTIVEFF-5617 INACTIVEHAZMAT
Verified linkslegacyscs.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 · vs national

Vehicle OOS 27.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 90 vehicle and 106 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

32.1% · 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 7.1 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

103 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 9

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
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 84-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
84
Inspections · 24 mo
106
Annualized
≈53 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

10%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
6%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
51%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
57%
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 Driving50 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance30 · 5 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 10 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 7 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance8 · 8 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 393.106 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

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

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 28 total · 7 in 24 mo

28
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20255035
20241001
20233003
20213113
20202002
20192012
20183003
20173023
20161001
20031001
20012011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 16, 2026CA00Yes
Feb 26, 2026CA03Yes
Oct 7, 2025CA00Yes
Oct 3, 2025IL01Yes
Feb 21, 2025CA01Yes
Feb 19, 2025CA01Yes
Jan 21, 2025CA00Yes
Jun 8, 2024CA00Yes
Dec 3, 2023CA00Yes
Nov 27, 2023CA00Yes
Aug 20, 2023CA00Yes
Dec 16, 2021CA00Yes
Aug 7, 2021CA11Yes
Feb 26, 2021CA00Yes
Feb 12, 2020CA00Yes
Jan 14, 2020CA00Yes
Nov 15, 2019CA00Yes
Jan 9, 2019MA01Yes
Dec 31, 2018MA00Yes
Dec 27, 2018CA00Yes
Jun 25, 2018CA00Yes
Dec 5, 2017CA00Yes
Oct 8, 2017CA02Yes
Aug 14, 2017CA01Yes
Jan 29, 2016CA00Yes