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

2923 US HWY 421 N, WILMINGTON, NC, 28401

DOT# 91543 Wilmington, North Carolina

PRIVATE CARRIER

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Power Units

Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

Not reported

Insurance

Conditional

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Public record

5 events tracked · latest Jun 19, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Safety & compliance 5

Jun 19, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Mar 25, 2026
Roadside inspection, 3 out-of-service violations.
Mar 24, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 out-of-service violation.
Feb 19, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Jul 21, 2025
Crash reported (no fatalities).

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

Contact Details

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Physical Address2923 US HWY 421 N, WILMINGTON, NC, 28401

Mailing AddressPO BOX 2139, WILMINGTON, NC, 28402

Operating Authorities

Authority TypePRIVATE PROPERTY

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

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 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Hours-of-Service Compliance

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Driver Fitness

measure .02 · 1 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Controlled Substances / Alcohol

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Vehicle Maintenance

measure 7.19 · 9 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage159,230 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)1

Fatal0

Driver OOS0.0% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS52.9% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Last Review10/10/2008

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypePrivate Carrier

Fleet9 units

Drivers5

Mileage159,230 mi

MCS-15002/2026

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)1

Fatal0

Injury0

Tow-Away1

Safety RatingConditional

Driver Inspections

Total22

Out of Service0

OOS Rate0.0%

National Avg5.5%

Below National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total17

Out of Service9

OOS Rate52.9%

National Avg20.7%

Above National Average

Last FMCSA Review: 10/10/2008 | Rated: 12/24/2008

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

2024

11 · 4 OOS -

2025

14 · 5 OOS ▲

2026

4 · 2 OOS ▼

Crashes

2024

0 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 Jun 2026, 20 inspections, 8 resulted in out-of-service (40% OOS rate).

Vehicle Out-of-Service 13 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
07/21/2025	DELCO	NC	0	0	1	1	Clear	Dry	Daylight

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

25 roadside violations across 20 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 22 violations · 13 OOS

Unsafe Driving 2 violations · 0 OOS

Driver Fitness 1 violation · 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
06/19/2026	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	LELAND NC	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/25/2026	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US 17	3	3	0	3	3	-	▲Detail
03/24/2026	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US 74	1	1	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
02/19/2026	NC	Driver-Only (Level III)	US 70 NEAR SR 1140	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/21/2025	NC	Driver-Only (Level III)	US17 NEAR SR1402	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
11/20/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	I295 NEAR US 401	3	1	0	3	1	-	▲Detail
11/12/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US17 NEAR SR1401	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/21/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US 421 NEAR COWPEN LANDING RD	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/06/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	421	1	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
09/08/2025	NC	Driver-Only (Level III)	US17 NEAR SR1402	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/27/2025	NC	Driver-Only (Level III)	US17 NEAR LELAND	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/23/2025	NC	Full (Level I)	US 421 N	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/25/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	I140 NEAR US 74	1	1	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
06/23/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	SALTY SHORES	2	2	0	2	2	-	▲Detail
05/06/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	NC87	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/30/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US 421 NEAR FLEMING RD	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/25/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US HWY 74 (ROADSIDE) NEAR INTE	3	1	0	3	1	-	▲Detail
03/25/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	SHIPYARD BLVD	4	3	1	3	3	-	▲Detail
11/04/2024	NC	Full (Level I)	NC-24 EB NEAR NC-242	5	1	0	5	1	-	▲Detail
11/01/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	NEW HANOVER COUNTY, US 421	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
09/11/2024	NC	Driver-Only (Level III)	PENDER COUNTY, US 421	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/13/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	421	1	1	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
05/07/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	I40 NEAR 415MM	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/20/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	ONSLOW COUNTY, NC 24	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/06/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US74 (ROADSIDE)	1	1	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
03/05/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US 421 NEAR LANDFILL	1	1	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
03/05/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US 421 NEAR LANDFILL	1	0	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/27/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US17 NEAR SR1130	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/26/2024	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	NEW HANOVER COUNTY, US 421	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

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

Total Inspections21

Driver Fitness 1 viols

Vehicle Maintenance 9 viols

Licensing & Insurance

No insurance history records.

No active insurance policies.

No authority history.

No revocation records.

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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

−12

Starts at 100−22 totalFinal 78

Conditional safety rating−12

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

Operating history unknown−3

Crashes on record (rate-adjusted)−2

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

Vehicle out-of-service rate above national average

Vehicle OOS 52.9412% vs national avg 20.72%.

-3

Operating history unknown

No authority grant date on file.

-2

Crashes on record (rate-adjusted)

Crash rate: 1 crash(es) across 9 vehicles (~0.11 per vehicle); none fatal. Scaled to fleet size and fatal severity.

Where this company lands, risk scales

Crash history (rate-adjusted)−2 of 28

0 pts · low risk−28 pts · high risk

Crash rate: 1 crash(es) across 9 vehicles (~0.11 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 52.9412% 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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Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Crash Records (1)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (29)

Safety Performance Percentiles

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