Carrier profile · USDOT 1424059 · MC-127227 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Tropical Shipping USA LLC

DBA TROPICAL SHIPPING

30 power unitsavg 8 yrLocal · 1 statesRIVIERA BEACH, FL100/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-127227 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linkstropical.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 12.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 24 vehicle and 28 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

7.7% · 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 11.8 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

27 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 8

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
≈0.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 30-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
28
Annualized
≈14 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

7%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
22%
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 42 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 23 total · 0 in 24 mo

23
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20222002
20211001
20202002
20182012
20172012
20111001
20108246
20092002
20071001
20062002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 17, 2022FL00Yes
Sep 1, 2022FL00Yes
Aug 19, 2021FL00Yes
May 8, 2020FL00Yes
Feb 7, 2020FL00Yes
Oct 30, 2018FL02Yes
Jul 17, 2018FL00Yes
Jul 10, 2017FL01Yes
Feb 14, 2017FL00Yes
Jan 10, 2011FL00Yes
Dec 1, 2010FL01Yes
Oct 6, 2010FL00Yes
Sep 9, 2010FL00Yes
Aug 19, 2010FL00Yes
Apr 12, 2010FL01No
Apr 9, 2010FL10No
Feb 18, 2010FL01Yes
Jan 20, 2010FL11Yes
Oct 20, 2009FL00Yes
Apr 17, 2009FL00Yes
Dec 20, 2007FL00Yes
Sep 28, 2006FL00Yes
May 22, 2006FL00Yes