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Company CheckSTEP EXPRESS INC · DOT 3113794

11444 PRIVET CT, FONTANA, CA, 92337-1049

DOT# 3113794 MC# 84121 Fontana, California 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

7 events tracked · latest Sep 6, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Identity & ownership 2

Jul 19, 2026
Phone number changed.
Jun 29, 2026
Mailing address changed in FMCSA records.

Safety & compliance 5

Sep 6, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Aug 11, 2026
Roadside inspection, 2 out-of-service violations.
Aug 6, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Jul 30, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Jun 6, 2025
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION COMMON.

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

Contact Details

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Physical Address11444 PRIVET CT, FONTANA, CA, 92337-1049

Mailing Address11449 PRIVET CT, FONTANA, CA, 92337

Operating Authorities

Authority TypeAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

DocketMC084121

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 3.25 · 3 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Hours-of-Service Compliance

measure .97 · 12 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Driver Fitness

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Controlled Substances / Alcohol

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Vehicle Maintenance

measure 2.75 · 10 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage379,487 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)0

Fatal0

Driver OOS2.3% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS7.1% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Last Review10/10/2025

Insurance

Amount$750,000

Type91X

Effective11/13/2025

CompanySOUTHLAKE SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY

Policy #TMA81005854

Last checked09/17/2026

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypeCarrier

Fleet8 units

Drivers8

Mileage379,487 mi

Operating8 years

MCS-15002/2025

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Injury0

Tow-Away0

Driver Inspections

Total43

Out of Service1

OOS Rate2.3%

National Avg5.5%

Below National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total28

Out of Service2

OOS Rate7.1%

National Avg20.7%

Below National Average

Last FMCSA Review: 10/10/2025

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

1 · 0 OOS -

2024

20 · 3 OOS ▲

2025

25 · 2 OOS ▼

2026

15 · 2 OOS =

Crashes

2023

0 crashes -

2024

1 crash ▲

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 Sep 2026, 47 inspections, 5 resulted in out-of-service (10.6% OOS rate).

Driver Out-of-Service 1 OOS

Vehicle Out-of-Service 6 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Crash Records (1)

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
04/15/2024	UNINCORPORATED	CA	0	0	1	2	Clear	Dry	Daylight

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

62 roadside violations across 47 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 34 violations · 6 OOS

Hours-of-Service (HOS) Compliance 23 violations · 1 OOS

Unsafe Driving 5 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 (61)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Driver OOS	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
09/06/2026	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	NM	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/11/2026	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	CA	8	2	1	0	7	2	-	▲Detail
08/06/2026	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	NM	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/30/2026	OK	Driver-Only (Level III)	OK	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/23/2026	AZ	Driver-Only (Level III)	YUMA AZ	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/05/2026	US	Walk-Around (Level II)	CALEXICO CA	2	1	0	0	2	1	-	▲Detail
06/04/2026	NV	Full (Level I)	NV	2	0	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
06/03/2026	NV	Driver-Only (Level III)	NV	3	0	1	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
04/03/2026	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	I40	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/20/2026	NM	Full (Level I)	TEXICO PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/09/2026	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/25/2026	AZ	Walk-Around (Level II)	CASA GRANDE AZ	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
02/12/2026	KS	Walk-Around (Level II)	BOURBON COUNTY - 011	2	0	1	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
02/04/2026	UT	Driver-Only (Level III)	ST. GEORGE UT	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/05/2026	AZ	Walk-Around (Level II)	SAN SIMON AZ	2	0	1	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
12/05/2025	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	ANTHONY PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/04/2025	NM	Full (Level I)	GALLUP PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/21/2025	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/10/2025	CA	Terminal (Level V)	1850 ATLANTA AVE, RIVERSIDE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/10/2025	CA	Terminal (Level V)	1850 ATLANTA AVE, RIVERSIDE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/10/2025	CA	Terminal (Level V)	1850 ATLANTA AVE, RIVERSIDE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/02/2025	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	TEXICO PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/01/2025	AZ	Driver-Only (Level III)	EHRENBERG AZ	2	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
09/06/2025	TX	Walk-Around (Level II)	US281 NB MM296	5	0	1	0	4	0	-	▲Detail
08/29/2025	AZ	Driver-Only (Level III)	EHRENBERG AZ	4	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/11/2025	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	TEXICO PORT OF ENTRY	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
07/09/2025	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	TEXICO PORT OF ENTRY	2	0	1	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
07/01/2025	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/27/2025	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	ANTHONY PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/04/2025	CA	Driver-Only (Level III)	DESERT HILLS IF	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
05/23/2025	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	TEXICO PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/20/2025	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	ANTHONY PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/23/2025	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	NARA VISA PORT OF ENTRY	1	1	1	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/19/2025	IL	Driver-Only (Level III)	I-55	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/15/2025	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	ANTHONY PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/26/2025	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	1	1	0	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
02/24/2025	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	MT. PASS IF	2	0	2	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/16/2025	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/31/2025	MO	Walk-Around (Level II)	JOPLIN MO	2	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/07/2025	AZ	Driver-Only (Level III)	DOUGLAS AZ	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/17/2024	AZ	Full (Level I)	SAN SIMON AZ	8	2	0	0	0	2	-	▲Detail
12/16/2024	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/16/2024	CA	Driver-Only (Level III)	BARSTOW AREA	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/08/2024	CA	Full (Level I)	I-15 @MOUNTAIN PASS JPOE,CVEF	2	0	1	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
10/29/2024	IL	Driver-Only (Level III)	I-70 WB	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/16/2024	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/07/2024	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	GALLUP PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/26/2024	AZ	Driver-Only (Level III)	FLAGSTAFF AZ	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/26/2024	NM	Full (Level I)	GALLUP PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/19/2024	TX	Walk-Around (Level II)	US90 AT ZUBENBUELER	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
08/09/2024	CA	Full (Level I)	SIDEWINDER PLATFORM SCALE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/21/2024	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/17/2024	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	LORDSBURG PORT OF ENTRY	1	1	1	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/28/2024	CA	Terminal (Level V)	1850 ATLANTA AVE, RIVERSIDE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/28/2024	CA	Terminal (Level V)	1850 ATLANTA AVE, RIVERSIDE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/28/2024	CA	Terminal (Level V)	1850 ATLANTA AVE, RIVERSIDE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/23/2024	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	AT INTERSECTION OF I-10 AND I	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/14/2024	CA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ROADSIDE	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/11/2024	NV	Driver-Only (Level III)	US95/SR164	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/20/2024	AZ	Driver-Only (Level III)	EHRENBERG AZ	7	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/16/2023	NM	Full (Level I)	SAN JON PORT OF ENTRY	5	0	1	0	4	0	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

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

Total Inspections48

Unsafe Driving 3 viols

HOS Compliance 12 viols

Vehicle Maintenance 10 viols

Licensing & Insurance

Form	Type	Insurance Company	Policy	Coverage	Effective	Cancel Date	Method
91X	BIPD/Primary	SENTRY SELECT INSURANCE COMPANY	A0153742001	$750,000	06/08/2023	06/08/2025	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	GREAT WEST CASUALTY CO.	MCP59602A	$1,000,000	06/08/2020	06/08/2023	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	WESCO INSURANCE COMPANY	WMC1637210	$750,000	06/08/2019	06/08/2020	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	WESCO INSURANCE COMPANY	WMC1637210	$750,000	06/08/2018	06/08/2019	Cancelled

No active insurance policies.

Docket	Type	Action	Served	Disposition	Disp Date
MC084121	MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER	GRANTED	06/21/2018	-	-
MC084121	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	05/13/2019	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	06/12/2019
MC084121	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	05/12/2025	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	06/06/2025
MC084121	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	05/12/2020	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	05/26/2020

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)	−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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Crash Records (1)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (61)

Safety Performance Percentiles

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