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ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS INC

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815 WOBURN ST, WILMINGTON, MA, 01887

DOT# 1786780 MC# 651038 Wilmington, Massachusetts 13 years

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Power Units

Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

$1,500,000

Insurance

Not Rated

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Contact Details

Phone(781) 316-0400

Fax(781) 316-0401

Email[email protected]

Physical Address815 WOBURN ST, WILMINGTON, MA, 01887

Mailing Address9 DUDLEY STREET PLACE, ARLINGTON, MA, 02476

Operating Authorities

Authority TypeAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE

Carrier Operation

DocketMC651038

CommonNot Active

ContractActive

BrokerNot Active

Operating13 years

All Docket Numbers

MC651038

Company Overview

ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS INC is a FMCSA-validated carrier based in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The company has been in operation for 13 years, registered with the FMCSA on 06/27/2008. The fleet consists of 57 power units and 45 drivers. Annual mileage is reported at 1,285,000 miles (2023). The carrier transports Passengers. With zero crashes across 9 inspections, ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS INC maintains an excellent safety record. Insurance coverage of $1,500,000 is on file through ARBELLA PROTECTION INSURANCE COMPANY. Active operating authorities include Contract. Based on authority, insurance, safety, and compliance data, ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS INC has a Trust Score of 100/100 (Excellent).

Cargo Transported

Passengers

Operation Classification

Authorized For Hire Passenger Carrier

Mileage

Annual Mileage1,285,000 miles

Mileage Year2023

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 OOS11.1% avg 20.7%

Insurance

Amount$1,500,000

Type91X

Effective01/01/2026

CompanyARBELLA PROTECTION INSURANCE COMPANY

Policy #1020168276

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypeCarrier

Fleet57 units

Drivers45

Mileage1,285,000 mi

Operating13 years

MCS-15005/2026

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Injury0

Tow-Away0

Driver Inspections

Total0

Out of Service0

OOS Rate0.0%

National Avg5.5%

Vehicle Inspections

Total9

Out of Service1

OOS Rate11.1%

National Avg20.7%

Below National Average

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

2024

5 · 1 OOS —

2025

4 · 0 OOS ▼

Crashes

No crashes on record.

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 Oct 2025 — 9 inspections, 1 resulted in out-of-service (11.1% OOS rate).

Vehicle Out-of-Service 2 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

3 roadside violations across 9 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 3 violations · 2 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 (9)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Driver OOS	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
10/14/2025	MA	Terminal (Level V)	H-ARLINGTON	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
10/14/2025	MA	Terminal (Level V)	H-ARLINGTON	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
10/14/2025	MA	Terminal (Level V)	H-ARLINGTON	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
10/14/2025	MA	Terminal (Level V)	H-ARLINGTON	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
09/12/2024	MA	Terminal (Level V)	S-ARLINGTON	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
08/29/2024 ▼	MA	Terminal (Level V)	S-JAMAICA PLAIN	2	2	0	0	2	2	-
Violations (2) 393.83(g) — CFR 393.83(g) OOS 393.41 — CFR 393.41 OOS
08/29/2024	MA	Terminal (Level V)	S-JAMAICA PLAIN	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
08/29/2024 ▼	MA	Terminal (Level V)	S-JAMAICA PLAIN	1	0	0	0	1	0	-
Violations (1) 393.9(a) — CFR 393.9(a) Non-OOS
08/29/2024	MA	Terminal (Level V)	S-JAMAICA PLAIN	0	0	0	0	0	0	-

Licensing & Insurance

Form	Type	Insurance Company	Policy	Coverage	Effective	Cancel Date	Method
91X	BIPD/Primary	PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY	PHPK2070725	$1,500,000	12/04/2019	01/01/2021	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY	NHA088342	$3,500,000	12/04/2019	01/01/2021	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY	PHPK2070725	$1,000,000	12/04/2019	12/04/2019	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY	NHA084793	$3,500,000	12/04/2018	01/05/2020	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY	PHPK1912927	$1,500,000	12/04/2018	12/04/2019	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY	NHA084793	$3,500,000	12/04/2018	12/04/2019	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY	PHPK1744145	$1,500,000	12/04/2017	12/04/2018	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY	NHA081339	$3,500,000	12/04/2017	12/04/2018	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY	NHA077734	$3,500,000	12/04/2016	12/04/2017	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE CO.	01MH005123386	$1,500,000	12/04/2015	12/04/2017	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE CO.	005123386	$1,500,000	12/04/2014	06/12/2015	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	NEW HAMPSHIRE INSURANCE CO.	01-MH-005123386	$1,500,000	12/04/2013	12/04/2014	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	KNIGHTBROOK INSURANCE COMPANY	MAPA0004802	$1,500,000	12/04/2012	12/04/2013	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	KNIGHTBROOK INSURANCE COMPANY	MAPA00048-01	$1,500,000	12/04/2010	12/04/2012	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	SAFETY INSURANCE CO.	5053513	$1,500,000	10/27/2008	01/29/2011	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	THE CHARTER OAK FIRE INSURANCE CO.	BA-0G922429	$5,000,000	06/12/2015	12/04/2015	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	PILGRIM INSURANCE COMPANY	CSC00001015723	$1,500,000	01/01/2025	02/26/2025	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	PILGRIM INSURANCE COMPANY	CSC00001015723	$1,500,000	01/01/2025	01/28/2025	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY	NHA096680	$3,500,000	01/01/2022	03/08/2023	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Excess	RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY	NHA092640	$3,500,000	01/01/2021	01/01/2022	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY	PHPK2221553	$1,500,000	01/01/2021	01/01/2025	Replaced

No active insurance policies.

Docket	Type	Action	Served	Disposition	Disp Date
MC651038	MOTOR PASSENGER CONTRACT CARRIER	REINSTATED	12/24/2013	-	-
MC651038	CONTRACT	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	12/11/2019	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	12/17/2019
MC651038	CONTRACT	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	11/07/2012	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	11/30/2012
MC651038	MOTOR PASSENGER CONTRACT CARRIER	GRANTED	11/07/2012	REVOKED	12/10/2013
MC651038	MOTOR PASSENGER CONTRACT CARRIER	DISMISSED	08/06/2008	-	-

No revocation records.

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100/100

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

100 — no deductions

Clean record — the bar stays full at 100.

Verification — 4 core requirements

Active operating authority

FMCSA shows the USDOT registration and authority are active.

Authorized for hire

Holds active for-hire (common or contract) authority.

Active insurance on file

Insurance coverage and carrier are on file with FMCSA.

Safety rating not Unsatisfactory

No Unsatisfactory rating on file.

What's lowering this score

Clean record — no deductions. This carrier starts and stays at 100.

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) knockout	−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.

ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS INC

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Company Overview

Cargo Transported

Operation Classification

Mileage

Drivers

Equipment

Safety Summary

Insurance

Quick Facts

Safety & Inspection Data

Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (9)

Licensing & Insurance