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Company CheckADVANTAGE TRANSPORTATION · DOT 669216

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

6246 W STERNS ROAD, OTTAWA LAKE, MI, 49267

DOT# 669216 Ottawa Lake, Michigan

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Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

None on file

Insurance

Conditional

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Public record

5 events tracked · latest Sep 21, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Safety & compliance 4

Aug 19, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 violation (no OOS).
Aug 11, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 out-of-service violation.
Jul 30, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Jul 28, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.

Insurance 1

Current
No active insurance on file.

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

Contact Details

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Physical Address6246 W STERNS ROAD, OTTAWA LAKE, MI, 49267

Mailing Address6246 W STERNS ROAD, OTTAWA LAKE, MI, 49267

Operating Authorities

Authority TypePRIVATE PROPERTY

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

CommonNot Active

ContractNot Active

BrokerNot Active

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 3.4 · 3 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Hours-of-Service Compliance

measure .02 · 1 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 4.61 · 7 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage800,000 miles

Mileage Year2024

VMT SourceMCS-150 Form

Drivers

Interstate

Intrastate

CDL

Total

Interstate >100mi0

Interstate <100mi0

Intrastate >100mi0

Intrastate <100mi0

Safety Summary

Safety RatingConditional

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Driver OOS10.0% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS25.0% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Last Review09/23/2019

Insurance

AmountNone on file

VerifiedFMCSA · 07/09/2026

Last checked09/21/2026

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypePrivate Carrier

Fleet15 units

Drivers13

Mileage800,000 mi

MCS-15008/2025

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Injury0

Tow-Away0

Safety RatingConditional

Driver Inspections

Total20

Out of Service2

OOS Rate10.0%

National Avg5.5%

Above National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total12

Out of Service3

OOS Rate25.0%

National Avg20.7%

Above National Average

Last FMCSA Review: 09/23/2019 | Rated: 08/31/2000

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

2 · 0 OOS -

2024

13 · 5 OOS ▲

2025

9 · 1 OOS ▼

2026

12 · 2 OOS ▲

Crashes

2023

1 crash -

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 Aug 2026, 25 inspections, 5 resulted in out-of-service (20% OOS rate).

Vehicle Out-of-Service 5 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Crash Records (2)

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
01/12/2024	I 80 E AT THE 216 MILE MARKER	IA	0	0	1	3	Freezing Rain	Water	Dawn
10/27/2023	FORT WRIGHT	KY	0	0	1	2	Rain	Wet	Daylight

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

22 roadside violations across 25 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 12 violations · 4 OOS

Unsafe Driving 7 violations · 1 OOS

Hours-of-Service (HOS) Compliance 1 violation · 0 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 (36)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Driver OOS	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
08/19/2026	MI	Driver-Only (Level III)	MI	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/11/2026	MI	Full (Level I)	MI	2	1	0	0	2	1	-	▲Detail
07/30/2026	OH	Full (Level I)	FINDLAY OH	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/28/2026	IL	Driver-Only (Level III)	I-80 EB	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/26/2026	OH	Walk-Around (Level II)	FINDLAY OH	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/21/2026	IN	Walk-Around (Level II)	WARREN IN	1	1	0	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
05/13/2026	MI	Driver-Only (Level III)	MI	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/28/2026	MI	Driver-Only (Level III)	ROAD	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/12/2026	MI	Walk-Around (Level II)	S/B I-75 & US-127 SPLIT	3	0	0	0	3	0	-	▲Detail
02/02/2026	IL	Full (Level I)	015 - PEOTONE - I-57 N/B	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/13/2026	OH	Driver-Only (Level III)	BOWLING GREEN OH	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/06/2026	IN	Walk-Around (Level II)	WARREN IN	2	0	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
12/18/2025	OH	Driver-Only (Level III)	FINDLAY OH	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/11/2025	OH	Driver-Only (Level III)	MILAN OH	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
09/18/2025	IL	Driver-Only (Level III)	I-355	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
09/03/2025	OH	Driver-Only (Level III)	MARION OH	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/02/2025	IN	Walk-Around (Level II)	WABASH IN	3	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/18/2025	MI	Walk-Around (Level II)	NB 23 @ MM 15	2	1	0	0	2	1	-	▲Detail
02/18/2025	OH	Driver-Only (Level III)	COLUMBUS OH	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/04/2025	IN	Walk-Around (Level II)	WARREN IN	2	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/29/2025	MI	Driver-Only (Level III)	E/B I-94@ SANDSTONE REST AREA	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/27/2024	MI	Walk-Around (Level II)	E/B I94 NEAR W. MICHIGAN AVE	1	1	0	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
12/19/2024	MI	Driver-Only (Level III)	EB	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/27/2024	MI	Full (Level I)	GRASS LAKE SCALE W/B	1	1	0	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
10/09/2024	OH	Full (Level I)	FINDLAY OH	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
09/16/2024	KY	Full (Level I)	LEXINGTON	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/16/2024	IN	Full (Level I)	WARREN IN	1	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/30/2024	MI	Full (Level I)	I-275 N/B @ CANTON REST AREA	6	1	2	1	4	0	-	▲Detail
04/17/2024	MI	Walk-Around (Level II)	GRASS LAKE SCALE E/B	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/07/2024	IN	Walk-Around (Level II)	WARREN IN	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/12/2024	OH	Walk-Around (Level II)	ROADSIDE	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
02/05/2024	OH	Full (Level I)	FINDLAY SCALES	1	1	0	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
01/26/2024	MI	Full (Level I)	PONTIAC SCALE S/B	3	0	0	0	3	0	-	▲Detail
01/04/2024	MI	Driver-Only (Level III)	US12 @ DEAL PKWY	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/13/2023	MI	Walk-Around (Level II)	US12 @ DOBSON RD	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
10/03/2023	OH	Full (Level I)	FINDLAY SCALES	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

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

Total Inspections23

Unsafe Driving 3 viols

HOS Compliance 1 viols

Vehicle Maintenance 7 viols

Licensing & Insurance

No insurance history records.

No active insurance policies.

No authority history.

No revocation records.

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75/100

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 75

−12

Starts at 100−25 totalFinal 75

Conditional safety rating−12

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

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

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

Conditional rating (acceptable, but not Unsatisfactory).

What's lowering this score

-12

Conditional safety rating

FMCSA assigned a Conditional safety rating.

-5

Driver out-of-service rate above national average

Driver OOS 10% vs national avg 5.51%.

-5

Vehicle out-of-service rate above national average

Vehicle OOS 25% vs national avg 20.72%.

-3

Operating history unknown

No authority grant date on file.

Where this company lands, risk scales

Driver out-of-service rate−5 of 5

0 pts · low risk−5 pts · high risk

Driver OOS 10% vs national avg 5.51%.

Vehicle out-of-service rate−5 of 5

0 pts · low risk−5 pts · high risk

Vehicle OOS 25% 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.

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SMS BASIC Scores

Mileage

Drivers

Safety Summary

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Quick Facts

Safety & Inspection Data

Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Crash Records (2)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (36)

Safety Performance Percentiles

Licensing & Insurance

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