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Company CheckALWAYS BEST SERVICE LLC · DOT 3113346

21844 76TH AVE S, KENT, WA, 98032

DOT# 3113346 MC# 83875 Kent, Washington 8 years

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Power Units

Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

$750,000

Insurance

Not Rated

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Public record

6 events tracked · latest Feb 19, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Safety & compliance 6

Feb 19, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Feb 12, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 violation (no OOS).
Dec 4, 2025
Roadside inspection, 2 violations (no OOS).
Nov 11, 2025
Crash reported (no fatalities).
Oct 22, 2025
Roadside inspection, 1 out-of-service violation.
Oct 5, 2024
Crash reported (no fatalities).

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

Contact Details

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Physical Address21844 76TH AVE S, KENT, WA, 98032

Mailing Address5106 OLIVE AVE SE, AUBURN, WA, 98092

Operating Authorities

Authority TypeAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

DocketMC083875

CommonActive

ContractNot Active

BrokerNot Active

Operating8 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 9.66 · 5 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage894,799 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 OOS60.0% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Insurance

Amount$750,000

Type91X

Effective07/10/2025

CompanyUNITED FINANCIAL CASUALTY COMPANY

Policy #CA00333066

Last checked08/02/2026

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypeCarrier

Fleet1 units

Drivers1

Mileage894,799 mi

Operating8 years

MCS-15003/2026

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)3

Fatal0

Injury2

Tow-Away1

Driver Inspections

Total6

Out of Service0

OOS Rate0.0%

National Avg5.5%

Below National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total5

Out of Service3

OOS Rate60.0%

National Avg20.7%

Above 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

2023

11 · 1 OOS -

2024

9 · 1 OOS =

2025

3 · 2 OOS ▲

2026

2 · 0 OOS ▼

Crashes

2023

0 crashes -

2024

2 crashes ▲

2025

1 crash ▼

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 Feb 2026, 6 inspections, 3 resulted in out-of-service (50% OOS rate).

Vehicle Out-of-Service 3 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Crash Records (3)

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
11/11/2025	RITZVILLE	WA	2	1	7	Sleet/Hail	Wet	Daylight
10/05/2024	HAMMETT	ID	1	1	2	Clear	Dry	Daylight
06/26/2024	RENTON	WA	0	1	2	Severe Crosswinds	Dry	Dusk

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

10 roadside violations across 6 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 · 3 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 (25)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
02/19/2026	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	SPRAGUE WA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/12/2026	WA	Walk-Around (Level II)	LIBERTY LAKE WA	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
12/04/2025	WA	Walk-Around (Level II)	MOSES LAKE WA	2	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
10/22/2025	ID	Walk-Around (Level II)	COEUR D'ALENE ID	2	1	0	2	1	-	▲Detail
06/05/2025	WA	Walk-Around (Level II)	SPOKANE WA	1	1	0	0	1	-	▲Detail
09/09/2024	WA	Walk-Around (Level II)	DU PONT WA	4	1	0	0	1	-	▲Detail
06/18/2024	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ARLINGTON WA	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/11/2024	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	EVERETT WA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/08/2024	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	BOW WA	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/21/2024	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	LAKEWOOD WA	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/20/2024	WI	Full (Level I)	JANESVILLE WI	5	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/15/2024	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	BOW WA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/27/2024	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ARLINGTON WA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/23/2024	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ARLINGTON WA	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/19/2023	WA	Walk-Around (Level II)	DU PONT WA	5	2	0	0	2	-	▲Detail
12/13/2023	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	GRANDVIEW WA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/06/2023	WA	Walk-Around (Level II)	YAKIMA WA	1	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/24/2023	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	CLE ELUM WA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/18/2023	WA	Walk-Around (Level II)	SC35 ANACORTES	2	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
09/20/2023	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	SC33 BOW HILL (POE)	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/29/2023	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	SOUTH BOUND	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/11/2023	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ELLENSBURGWA	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/27/2023	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	SC39 EVERETT SOUTHBOUND	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/18/2023	IA	Driver-Only (Level III)	HWY 38 NB @ 170TH ST	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/17/2023	WA	Walk-Around (Level II)	SC72 RIDGEFIELD (POE)	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

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

Total Inspections6

Vehicle Maintenance 5 viols

Licensing & Insurance

Form	Type	Insurance Company	Policy	Coverage	Effective	Cancel Date	Method
91X	BIPD/Primary	PRIME INSURANCE COMPANY	SC20090896	$750,000	12/12/2020	07/01/2021	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	UNITED FINANCIAL CASUALTY COMPANY	CA00333066	$750,000	09/11/2024	07/10/2025	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	GREAT WEST CASUALTY CO.	GRT08295A	$1,000,000	09/11/2023	09/11/2024	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	CANAL INSURANCE CO.	995357001	$750,000	09/11/2022	09/11/2023	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	PRIME INSURANCE COMPANY	SC21090666	$750,000	09/11/2021	09/11/2022	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	PRIME INSURANCE COMPANY	SC21090666	$750,000	09/11/2021	09/30/2022	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	PRIME INSURANCE COMPANY	SC20090896	$750,000	09/11/2020	12/12/2020	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	PRIME INSURANCE COMPANY	SC20090896	$750,000	07/01/2021	09/11/2021	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	GLOBAL HAWK INSURANCE COMPANY, A RRG	WAT111117	$750,000	04/30/2020	09/11/2020	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	GLOBAL HAWK INSURANCE COMPANY, A RRG	WAT111117	$750,000	04/30/2020	09/12/2020	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	UNITED FINANCIAL CASUALTY COMPANY	CA 7575020	$750,000	04/30/2018	04/30/2020	Cancelled

No active insurance policies.

Docket	Type	Action	Served	Disposition	Disp Date
MC083875	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	09/09/2022	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	09/28/2022
MC083875	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	09/06/2022	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	09/09/2022
MC083875	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	08/17/2020	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	09/14/2020
MC083875	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	08/16/2021	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	09/13/2021
MC083875	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	08/15/2022	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	08/22/2022
MC083875	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	06/04/2021	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	06/22/2021
MC083875	MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER	REINSTATED	05/11/2020	-	-
MC083875	MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER	GRANTED	05/04/2018	REVOKED	05/06/2020

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78/100

Good

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 78

−17

Starts at 100−22 totalFinal 78

Crashes on record (rate-adjusted)−17

Vehicle out-of-service rate above national average−5

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

-17

Crashes on record (rate-adjusted)

Crash rate: 3 crash(es) across 1 vehicle (~3 per vehicle); none fatal. Scaled to fleet size and fatal severity.

-5

Vehicle out-of-service rate above national average

Vehicle OOS 60% vs national avg 20.72%.

Where this company lands, risk scales

Crash history (rate-adjusted)−17 of 28

0 pts · low risk−28 pts · high risk

Crash rate: 3 crash(es) across 1 vehicle (~3 per vehicle); none fatal. Scaled to fleet size and fatal severity.

Vehicle out-of-service rate−5 of 5

0 pts · low risk−5 pts · high risk

Vehicle OOS 60% vs national avg 20.72%.

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.

ALWAYS BEST SERVICE LLC

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Company Information

Contact Details

Operating Authorities

Operation Classification

SMS BASIC Scores

Mileage

Drivers

Safety Summary

Insurance

Quick Facts

Safety & Inspection Data

Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Crash Records (3)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (25)

Safety Performance Percentiles

Licensing & Insurance

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