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MELE LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS INC

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Company CheckMELE LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS INC · DOT 2045293

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

2 MELE PLACE, RANKIN, PA, 15104

DOT# 2045293 Rankin, Pennsylvania

PRIVATE CARRIER

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105

Power Units

Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

Not reported

Insurance

Not Rated

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Public record

7 events tracked · latest Mar 26, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Safety & compliance 7

Mar 26, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Mar 25, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Mar 18, 2026
Crash reported (no fatalities).
Jan 15, 2026
Roadside inspection, 2 violations (no OOS).
Jan 15, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Aug 26, 2025
Crash reported (no fatalities).
Sep 9, 2024
Crash reported (no fatalities).

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

Contact Details

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Physical Address2 MELE PLACE, RANKIN, PA, 15104

Mailing Address2 MELE PLACE, RANKIN, PA, 15104

Operating Authorities

Authority TypePRIVATE PROPERTY

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

CommonNot Active

ContractNot Active

BrokerNot Active

Cargo Transported

Building MaterialsMachinery, Large Objects

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 .22 · 1 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 .81 · 3 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage873,000 miles

Mileage Year2024

VMT SourceMCS-150 Form

Drivers

Interstate

Intrastate

CDL

Total

Interstate >100mi0

Interstate <100mi0

Intrastate >100mi0

Intrastate <100mi0

Safety Summary

Safety RatingNot Rated

Total Crashes (24-mo)3

Fatal0

Driver OOS0.0% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS12.5% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Last Review04/11/2018

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypePrivate Carrier

Fleet105 units

Drivers54

Mileage873,000 mi

MCS-15003/2025

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)3

Fatal0

Injury1

Tow-Away2

Driver Inspections

Total21

Out of Service0

OOS Rate0.0%

National Avg5.5%

Below National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total8

Out of Service1

OOS Rate12.5%

National Avg20.7%

Below National Average

Last FMCSA Review: 04/11/2018

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

3 · 0 OOS -

2024

14 · 2 OOS ▲

2025

6 · 0 OOS ▼

2026

6 · 0 OOS =

Crashes

2023

1 crash -

2024

2 crashes ▲

2025

1 crash ▼

2026

1 crash =

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 Mar 2026, 16 inspections, 1 resulted in out-of-service (6.3% OOS rate).

Vehicle Out-of-Service 2 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Crash Records (5)

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	Injuries	Tow	Vehicles	Weather	Road	Light
03/18/2026	PITTSBURGH CITY	PA	0	1	2	Clear	Dry	Daylight
08/26/2025	PITTSBURGH	PA	0	1	1	Clear	Dry	Daylight
09/09/2024	KENNEDY TOWNSHIP	PA	1	1	2	-	Dry	Daylight
02/28/2024	NORTH HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP	PA	0	1	3	Clear	Dry	Daylight
08/21/2023	WEST MIFFLIN BOROUGH	PA	0	1	1	Clear	Dry	Daylight

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

20 roadside violations across 16 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

Unsafe Driving 14 violations · 0 OOS

Vehicle Maintenance 4 violations · 2 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 (29)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
03/26/2026	PA	Full (Level I)	SR0008	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/25/2026	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	PA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/15/2026	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	I79 NB MM 80 CRANBERRY TWP - N	2	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
01/15/2026	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	I79 NB MM 80 CRANBERRY TWP - N	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/14/2026	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP PA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/01/2026	PA	Walk-Around (Level II)	MUNHALL PA	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/12/2025	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	HOMESTEAD PA	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
11/17/2025	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	MUNHALL PA	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/17/2025	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	SR 79 NB AT BRIDGEVILLE REST A	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/01/2025	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ON AVENUE A 369 FEET NORTH OF	2	0	1	1	0	-	▲Detail
02/21/2025	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	PITTSBURGH PA	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/17/2025	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	I79 NB MM 80 CRANBERRY TWP - N	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
12/17/2024	PA	Walk-Around (Level II)	SR 79 NB AT BRIDGEVILLE REST A	6	2	0	6	2	-	▲Detail
12/17/2024	PA	Full (Level I)	SR 79 NB AT BRIDGEVILLE REST A	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
09/18/2024	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	PATTERSON AT SPR	2	0	1	1	0	-	▲Detail
08/19/2024	PA	Walk-Around (Level II)	SR 79 NB AT BRIDGEVILLE REST A	2	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
07/23/2024	PA	Full (Level I)	PITTSBURGH PA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/29/2024	PA	Walk-Around (Level II)	ON I79 S 130 MM	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
05/21/2024	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ON PA28 N 496 FEET NORTH OF S	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/30/2024	PA	Full (Level I)	ON SR22 270 FEET EAST OF OAKHI	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
04/30/2024	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	SR 79 NB AT BRIDGEVILLE REST A	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/17/2024	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ON I79 N 407 FEET NORTH OF UNN	2	0	1	1	0	-	▲Detail
03/26/2024	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ON 2ND ST 107 FEET WEST OF UNN	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/25/2024	PA	Walk-Around (Level II)	SR 576 AT SR 22	13	2	2	11	2	-	▲Detail
01/12/2024	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	SR 576 AT SR 22	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/11/2024	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	I79 NB MM 80 CRANBERRY TWP - N	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/13/2023	PA	Walk-Around (Level II)	SR66 HEMPFIELD TWP - MAIN TOL	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/27/2023	PA	Walk-Around (Level II)	NEVILLE RD AT GRAND AVE	2	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
07/19/2023	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	US119 S MEASURING 120 FEET SOU	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

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

Total Inspections19

Unsafe Driving 1 viols

Vehicle Maintenance 3 viols

Out of Service Orders (1)

OOS Date	Reason	Status	Rescind Date
2011-11-28	New Entrant Revoked - Expedited Actions	ACTIVE	2012-05-09

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.

MELE LANDSCAPE CONTRACTORS INC

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Company Information

Contact Details

Operating Authorities

Cargo Transported

Operation Classification

SMS BASIC Scores

Mileage

Drivers

Safety Summary

Quick Facts

Safety & Inspection Data

Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Crash Records (5)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (29)

Safety Performance Percentiles

Out of Service Orders (1)

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