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GULF COAST UNDERGROUND LLC

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Company CheckGULF COAST UNDERGROUND LLC · DOT 1324878

Private carrier, runs its own trucks and hauls its own freight

DBA: GCU LLC

5655 MIDDLE RD, THEODORE, AL, 36582

DOT# 1324878 Theodore, Alabama

PRIVATE CARRIER

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Power Units

Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

None on file

Insurance

Not Rated

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Public record

5 events tracked · latest Jul 14, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Safety & compliance 4

Jun 3, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
May 12, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Apr 27, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Mar 19, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 violation (no OOS).

Insurance 1

Current
No active insurance on file.

Public FMCSA record · blue clean · orange change · red risk.

Contact Details

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Physical Address5655 MIDDLE RD, THEODORE, AL, 36582

Mailing Address5655 MIDDLE RD, THEODORE, AL, 36582

Operating Authorities

Authority TypePRIVATE PROPERTY

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

CommonNot Active

ContractNot Active

BrokerNot Active

Company Overview

GULF COAST UNDERGROUND LLC is a FMCSA-validated private carrier based in Theodore, Alabama. The fleet consists of 88 power units and 65 drivers. Annual mileage is reported at 1,134,078 miles (2020). The carrier transports Machinery, Large Objects, Construction. With zero crashes across 52 inspections, GULF COAST UNDERGROUND LLC maintains an excellent safety record. Both driver and vehicle out-of-service rates are below the national average, indicating strong compliance. Based on authority, insurance, safety, and compliance data, GULF COAST UNDERGROUND LLC has a Trust Score of 97/100 (Excellent).

Cargo Transported

Machinery, Large ObjectsConstruction

Operation Classification

Private (Property)Private Only

SMS BASIC Scores

FMCSA safety categories, last 24 months. Above Cutoff = FMCSA flags a problem · Below cutoff = within limits · Clean = no violations.

Unsafe Driving

measure .14 · 2 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Hours-of-Service Compliance

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Driver Fitness

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Controlled Substances / Alcohol

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Vehicle Maintenance

measure 1.61 · 8 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage1,134,078 miles

Mileage Year2020

VMT SourceMCS-150 Form

Drivers

Interstate

Intrastate

CDL

Total

Interstate >100mi0

Interstate <100mi0

Intrastate >100mi0

Intrastate <100mi0

Equipment

No equipment breakdown on file with FMCSA.

HazMatNo

Safety Summary

Safety RatingNot Rated

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Driver OOS0.0% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS10.5% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Insurance

AmountNone on file

Type-

VerifiedFMCSA · 07/07/2026

Company-

Policy #-

Last checked07/13/2026

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypePrivate Carrier

Fleet88 units

Drivers65

Mileage1,134,078 mi

MCS-15011/2025

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Injury0

Tow-Away0

Driver Inspections

Total33

Out of Service0

OOS Rate0.0%

National Avg5.5%

Below National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total19

Out of Service2

OOS Rate10.5%

National Avg20.7%

Below National Average

HazMat Inspections

Total3

OOS0

OOS Rate0.0% (avg 4.5%)

Safety Trends by Year

Roadside inspections and crashes on file, year over year. The red portion of each inspection bar is the out-of-service share; ▲/▼ compares to the prior year.

Inspections · red = OOS

2023

6 · 1 OOS -

2024

11 · 0 OOS ▼

2025

23 · 2 OOS ▲

2026

6 · 0 OOS ▼

Crashes

2023

2 crashes -

2024

0 crashes ▼

2025

0 crashes =

2026

0 crashes =

Based on FMCSA crash and roadside inspection records (rolling 3-year window). The latest year may be partial.

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Live FMCSA roadside inspections through Jun 2026, 32 inspections, 2 resulted in out-of-service (6.3% OOS rate).

Vehicle Out-of-Service 2 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Crash Records (2)

Full crash history on file (all years), newest first. This list may show more than the headline Crashes figure above, because that figure follows the official FMCSA 24-month SMS window used for the Trust Score, older crashes still appear here for transparency.

Date	Location	State	Fatal	Injuries	Tow	Vehicles	Weather	Road	Light
10/17/2023	WALTERBORO	SC	0	3	1	2	Clear	Dry	Daylight
08/30/2023	UNINCORPORATED	FL	0	0	1	2	Clear	Dry	Daylight

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

20 roadside violations across 32 inspections, grouped into FMCSA safety-behavior categories. The shaded portion shows how many were serious enough to result in an out-of-service order.

ViolationsOut-of-service

Vehicle Maintenance 10 violations · 1 OOS

Unsafe Driving 6 violations · 0 OOS

Hazardous Materials 2 violations · 1 OOS

Other (General) 2 violations · 0 OOS

Categories follow FMCSR violation parts (Part 393/396 = Vehicle Maintenance, Part 395 = HOS; "Other" = general/administrative parts such as 390). Raw violation counts and out-of-service results, not FMCSA percentile rankings, which are not published for property carriers.

Inspection Records (46)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
06/03/2026	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	PENSACOLA FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/12/2026	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	JASPER FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/27/2026	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	CRESTVIEW FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/19/2026	MS	Full (Level I)	ITAWAMBA COUNTY E/B	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
02/13/2026	MS	Driver-Only (Level III)	MADISON COUNTY	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/22/2026	FL	Full (Level I)	GRAND RIDGE FL	2	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
10/15/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	PENSACOLA FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/07/2025	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	GRAND RIDGE FL	1	1	0	0	1	-	▲Detail
09/29/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	MILTON FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
09/10/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	LIVE OAK FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/12/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	PENSACOLA FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/04/2025	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	GRAND RIDGE FL	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/04/2025	MS	Driver-Only (Level III)	G93 SCALES	1	0	1	0	0	1	▲Detail
08/04/2025	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	GRAND RIDGE FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/14/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	MARIANNA FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/01/2025	FL	Full (Level I)	PENSACOLA FL	2	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/27/2025	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	MILTON FL	3	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/24/2025	NC	Driver-Only (Level III)	LUMBERTON WEIGH STATION, I-95,	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/24/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	CRESTVIEW FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/16/2025	MS	Driver-Only (Level III)	JACKSON COUNTY	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/13/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	TALLAHASSEE FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/28/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	BRISTOL FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/15/2025	MS	Full (Level I)	NASA SCALE I-10 EAST	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/02/2025	MS	Full (Level I)	I-20 E	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/24/2025	AL	Full (Level I)	ROBERTSDALE AL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/17/2025	TN	Full (Level I)	MOHAWK TN	2	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/02/2025	FL	Full (Level I)	PENSACOLA FL	3	1	0	0	1	-	▲Detail
03/31/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	MILTON FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/25/2025	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	JACKSONVILLE FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/18/2024	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	GRAND RIDGE FL	2	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/08/2024	MS	Walk-Around (Level II)	I-20 E	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
07/30/2024	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	PANAMA CITY FL	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/10/2024	MS	Walk-Around (Level II)	COVINGTON COUNTY	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/03/2024	GA	Full (Level I)	COLUMBUS GA	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/16/2024	AL	Full (Level I)	FLYING J	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/06/2024	LA	Walk-Around (Level II)	ROADSIDE	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/01/2024	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	LEE FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/01/2024	FL	Full (Level I)	MONTICELLO FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/28/2024	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	FREEPORT FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/05/2024	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	LEE FL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/23/2023	AL	Walk-Around (Level II)	ROADSIDE	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
09/05/2023	LA	Walk-Around (Level II)	ROADSIDE	6	2	0	6	2	-	▲Detail
08/30/2023	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	MCSAP HCC I-10 ESCAMBIA	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/16/2023	FL	Walk-Around (Level II)	MCSAP HCC I-10 ESCAMBIA	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/19/2023	FL	Driver-Only (Level III)	US19 / SR8	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/17/2023	FL	Full (Level I)	I10 PENSACOLA WIM-EAST	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

FMCSA SMS percentile rankings. Higher percentile = worse performance relative to peers.

Total Inspections34

Unsafe Driving 2 viols

Vehicle Maintenance 8 viols

Licensing & Insurance

No insurance history records.

No active insurance policies.

No authority history.

No revocation records.

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97/100

Excellent

VERIFIED

Every carrier starts at 100. We subtract points for each missing requirement or risk factor below. Verified means all four core requirements pass.

Score breakdown, from 100 to 97

Starts at 100−3 totalFinal 97

Operating history unknown−3

Verification, 4 core requirements

Active operating authority

FMCSA shows the USDOT registration and authority are active.

Operating authority N/A

Not required for private carriers, a private carrier hauls its own goods and needs no for-hire operating authority (no MC number) under FMCSA.

Insurance on file with FMCSA N/A

Not required for private carriers, a non-hazmat private carrier hauling its own goods is generally not required to file proof of insurance with FMCSA.

Safety rating not Unsatisfactory

No Unsatisfactory rating on file.

What's lowering this score

-3

Operating history unknown

No authority grant date on file.

How we calculate the Trust Score

Every company starts at 100

We subtract points for each missing requirement or risk factor. Verified means all the core requirements for that company's type pass. Nothing is added back, the score is a deduction model built only on public FMCSA data. No pay-to-play, no opinions.

Requirements differ by company type

Each company is judged fairly on its own FMCSA obligations. Anything that doesn't apply shows as a grey N/A, not required, never a penalty.

Carrier (for-hire)

Operating authority, authorized-for-hire, insurance on file, safety rating.

Broker

Broker authority + $75k surety bond (BMC-84/85). MCS-150 not required (no fleet).

Freight forwarder

FF authority + $75k bond + BOC-3. MCS-150 not required (no trucks).

Private carrier

Active USDOT + MCS-150 + safety. No operating authority / for-hire / insurance filing required (hauls its own goods).

Crashes are scaled, not flat

Crash history is proportional. We don't apply a flat penalty, we scale it to (a) crashes per vehicle in the fleet and (b) the share of those crashes that were fatal. So a big, safe fleet barely moves; a small fleet with many (and fatal) crashes takes a large hit.

0 pts deductedscaled by rate & severityup to −28 pts

Low end

50,000 vehicles + 1 crash → ~0 pts. A huge fleet with very few crashes per vehicle is almost untouched.

High end

5 vehicles + 3 crashes incl. fatal → large deduction (near the −28 cap). Many crashes per truck, fatal-heavy.

Mechanics: deduction is capped at 28 points, weighted roughly 60% on crashes-per-vehicle and 40% on the fatal ratio. Zero crashes = zero deduction. If fleet size is unknown, only crash severity can move the score (conservative).

Out-of-service rate vs. the national average

Driver and vehicle out-of-service rates are measured against the FMCSA national average, not a flat number. A company only takes the deduction when it sits above the national benchmark, for example “Vehicle OOS 37% vs national avg 20.7%”.

Point reference, the full menu

Every factor and exactly how many points it can remove. Knockout factors (they also fail Verification) are marked.

Factor	Points
USDOT / authority not active with FMCSA knockout	−25
Missing operating authority (when required) knockout	−15
No insurance or surety bond on file (when required) knockout	−25
Unsatisfactory safety rating knockout	−30
Conditional safety rating	−12
MCS-150 biennial update overdue (carriers)	−10
Crashes, rate-adjusted (per-vehicle & fatal share)	0 to −28
Driver OOS rate above national average	−5
Vehicle OOS rate above national average	−5
Very new carrier (under 1 year)	−10
Limited operating history (1-3 years)	−6
Moderate operating history (3-5 years)	−3
Operating history unknown	−3
No public phone number	−3
No public email address	−2

All inputs come from public FMCSA records (operating authority, insurance/bond filings, the SAFER/SMS safety profile, crash & inspection reports). If FMCSA updates a record, the score updates with it. For the full deduction table, see the methodology page.

GULF COAST UNDERGROUND LLC

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Company Information

Contact Details

Operating Authorities

Company Overview

Cargo Transported

Operation Classification

SMS BASIC Scores

Mileage

Drivers

Equipment

Safety Summary

Insurance

Quick Facts

Safety & Inspection Data

Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Crash Records (2)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (46)

Safety Performance Percentiles

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