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MICHAEL LEE HIGGINSON

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Company CheckMICHAEL LEE HIGGINSON · DOT 278885

DBA: HIGGINSON TOWING & SALVAGE

6895 N IL HWY 148, MOUNT VERNON, IL, 62864

DOT# 278885 MC# 188469 Mount Vernon, Illinois 40 years

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3

Power Units

2

Drivers

0

Crashes (24-Month)

$750,000

Insurance

Not Rated

Safety Rating

0

Inspections

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Company Information

Legal NameMICHAEL LEE HIGGINSON

DBA NameHIGGINSON TOWING & SALVAGE

DOT Number278885

MC Number188469

Entity TypeCarrier

Operating StatusA - Active

LocationMount Vernon, Illinois

Added09/12/1986

MCS-15012/29/2025

Contact Details

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Physical Address6895 N IL HWY 148, MOUNT VERNON, IL, 62864

Mailing AddressPO BOX 566, MOUNT VERNON, IL, 62864

Operating Authorities

Authority TypeAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

DocketMC188469

CommonActive

ContractNot Active

BrokerNot Active

Operating40 years

Operation Classification

Authorized For Hire

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 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

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 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage20,000 miles

Mileage Year2024

VMT SourceMCS-150 Form

Drivers

2

Interstate

0

Intrastate

0

CDL

2

Total

Interstate >100mi0

Interstate <100mi0

Intrastate >100mi0

Intrastate <100mi0

Safety Summary

Safety RatingNot Rated

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Driver OOS0.0% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS0.0% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Insurance

Amount$750,000

Type91X

Effective03/11/2026

CompanyBERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN

Policy #02TRM057184-03

Last checked09/16/2026

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypeCarrier

Fleet3 units

Drivers2

Mileage20,000 mi

Operating40 years

MCS-15012/2025

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

Total0

Out of Service0

OOS Rate0.0%

National Avg20.7%

Licensing & Insurance

Form	Type	Insurance Company	Policy	Coverage	Effective	Cancel Date	Method
91X	BIPD/Primary	UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY CO.	KGP 152736	$750,000	12/31/1994	04/16/1995	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE CO.	125 060580	$750,000	12/31/1993	01/05/1995	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-01	$750,000	12/27/2018	03/11/2019	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-02	$1,000,000	12/09/2019	03/11/2020	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-01	$750,000	08/24/2018	01/23/2019	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-01	$750,000	08/24/2018	12/27/2018	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-05	$750,000	07/06/2022	03/11/2023	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-01	$750,000	06/04/2018	08/24/2018	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-01	$750,000	06/04/2018	09/20/2018	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-01	$1,000,000	04/18/2018	05/29/2018	Name Changed
91X	BIPD/Primary	ADDISON FARMERS' INSURANCE COMPANY	13800137	$1,000,000	03/30/1996	03/20/2001	Replaced
34	CARGO	ADDISON FARMERS' INSURANCE COMPANY	13800137	$0	03/30/1996	03/20/2001	Replaced
34	CARGO	ADDISON FARMERS' INSURANCE COMPANY	13800137	$0	03/30/1996	09/12/2001	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	JEFFERSON INSURANCE COMPANY	JCV 753707	$750,000	03/28/1995	03/28/1996	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY	CA 1553630	$1,000,000	03/20/2005	03/05/2010	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY	CA 1553630-2	$1,000,000	03/20/2004	03/20/2005	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY	CA 1553630-1	$1,000,000	03/20/2003	03/20/2004	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY	CA 1553630-0	$1,000,000	03/20/2002	03/20/2003	Cancelled
34	CARGO	ADDISON INSURANCE COMPANY	60804840	$0	03/20/2001	05/29/2018	Name Changed
91X	BIPD/Primary	ADDISON INSURANCE COMPANY	60804840	$1,000,000	03/20/2001	03/20/2002	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM057184-01	$750,000	03/11/2024	03/11/2025	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-06	$750,000	03/11/2023	03/11/2024	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-05	$750,000	03/11/2022	07/21/2022	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-05	$750,000	03/11/2022	07/06/2022	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-04	$750,000	03/11/2021	03/11/2022	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-03	$1,000,000	03/11/2020	03/11/2021	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-02	$1,000,000	03/11/2019	12/23/2019	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-02	$1,000,000	03/11/2019	12/09/2019	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-01	$1,000,000	03/11/2018	05/23/2018	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	02TRM027592-01	$1,000,000	03/11/2018	04/18/2018	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	ARTISAN & TRUCKERS CASUALTY COMPANY	CA 4588276	$1,000,000	03/05/2010	03/11/2018	Replaced

No active insurance policies.

Docket	Type	Action	Served	Disposition	Disp Date
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	12/27/2018	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	12/28/2018
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	11/26/2019	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	12/10/2019
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	11/09/2005	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	11/25/2005
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	08/24/2018	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	08/27/2018
MC188469	MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER	GRANTED	07/22/1986	REVOKED	05/29/2018
MC188469	MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER	REINSTATED	07/06/2018	-	-
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	06/24/2022	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	07/07/2022
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	03/28/1996	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	04/22/1996
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/27/2004	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/31/2004
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/22/2005	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/09/2005
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/14/2022	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/07/2022
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/13/2024	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/11/2024
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/13/2023	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/09/2023
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/13/2020	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/06/2020
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/12/2025	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/07/2025
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/12/2021	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/04/2021
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	02/12/2019	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/11/2019
MC188469	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	01/05/1995	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	02/01/1995

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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)	−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.

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