Carrier profile · USDOT 472560 · MC-680641 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Tropical Cheese Industries LLC

56 power unitsRegional · 6 statesPERTH AMBOY, NJ70/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-680641 INACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkstropicalcheese.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 5.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 19 vehicle and 34 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 5.4 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

33 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 56-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
56
Inspections · 24 mo
34
Annualized
≈17 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

3%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
20%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
78%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
25%
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 56 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 25 total · 3 in 24 mo

25
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20251011
20243032
20212021
20192011
20182012
20161011
20152002
20131011
20122002
20113013
20101001
20091001
20001001
19951011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 31, 2026NY02Yes
Jan 22, 2026PA00Yes
Aug 11, 2025MA01Yes
Jul 25, 2024NY03No
Mar 5, 2024CT03Yes
Mar 5, 2024CT02Yes
Jun 18, 2021NY01Yes
May 19, 2021NY02No
Sep 27, 2019FL00Yes
Jun 3, 2019NJ01No
Dec 26, 2018MA01Yes
Apr 6, 2018CT00Yes
Sep 28, 2016NJ01Yes
Sep 21, 2015DE00Yes
Feb 4, 2015NY00Yes
Oct 23, 2013NJ01Yes
Nov 14, 2012NJ00Yes
Sep 27, 2012NJ00Yes
Jun 15, 2011NJ00Yes
Jan 28, 2011NY00Yes
Jan 27, 2011NJ02Yes
Dec 1, 2010NJ00Yes
Aug 7, 2009NJ00Yes
May 12, 2000NJ00Yes
Dec 7, 1995NJ01Yes