SMITH AND ASSOCIATES EXCAVATING INC

DOT# 2496795 Sunbury, OH Authorized For-Hire / Exempt For-Hire
(740) 362-3355 lhart@smithexc.com 7257 E State Route 37, Sunbury OH 43074
8 power units · all owned 11 drivers
Intrastate Only
Poor Provisional: the filed fleet isn't backed up by the roadside record (only 1 of the 8 filed power units were seen at a roadside inspection in 24 months), so the grade can't lean on this motor carrier's own history until the fleet size is confirmed. Intrastate fleets of 6–9 trucks in Ohio are rarely inspected (about 1 a year for every 10 trucks), so the roadside record can't confirm the fleet either way.
FRED Score 10.0 / 100
Prior-only confidence
12 yrs history · 1 roadside inspection

FMCSA Live Status

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
8
Drivers · CDL
11 · 11
Annual miles
0 unreliable
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 7 0 0 7
Tractors 1 0 0 1
Trailers 0 0 0 0

Registration

Registered
04-17-2014 (12 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
04-30-2014
FRED Score Date
Nov 07, 2026
Officer
KENNETH J BELCZAK

Cargo

73.0
high risk
Machinery/Large Objects
High-Risk Cargo
Machinery Large

Estimated from the commodity types reported to FMCSA, not from loss history or the true cargo mix.

Advisory Grade — Outside the Ranked Book

Fleets under 10 power units are graded against their size cohort (pu6_9) for reference, but sit outside the 10+ power-unit underwriting book the FRED rank covers.

Mileage Unreliable

MCS-150 annual mileage is missing or zero despite observed safety activity. The per-100k-mile rate benchmarks on this page are excluded; the FRED grade does not use mileage (crash exposure is power-unit-years, violation exposure is inspection counts).

Stale MCS-150 Filing

This motor carrier has not updated their MCS-150 in over 3 years. Reported mileage and fleet size may be outdated.

Intrastate operation

Runs within Ohio only. Intrastate fleets in Ohio are inspected about 1 a year for every 13 trucks; interstate fleets, about 1 a year for every 2 trucks. So this record rests mainly on crash reports, which states file for intrastate trucks too, and few inspections are ordinary here.

Expected crash rate is probably higher than similar fleets (about an 80% chance), but the record is too thin to say by how much.

Similar fleets: intrastate fleets of 6–9 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

This motor carrier 3.30×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ Similar fleets 1.0×
Leaning Critical. Its estimate (3.30× similar fleets) is in the Critical range, but the record isn't strong enough to be 60% sure it is above the Critical line (2.11×), so the grade stays Poor.
Expected crashes, next 12 months
0.1 vs 0.0 for similar fleets
Likely 0–1 crashes
This motor carrier
0.1
Similar fleets
0.0
Chance of a fatal crash, next 12 months
<1%
About 3.3× similar fleets.
What's driving the grade
Crash history
betterworse
Leans worse, not yet proven. 1 crash on the FMCSA record in 24 months (about 0.5 a year); similar fleets have under 0.1 a year.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
About typical. Out-of-service orders, violations and unsafe-driving or hours-of-service violations are all close to the rate expected for its inspections.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The grade already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are not in it.

  • Nothing on the FMCSA record stands out.
Strengths
  • 1 crash in 24 months. No injuries, no fatalities.
Data flags
  • Unreliable reported mileage
    The motor carrier's self-reported annual mileage (MCS-150) looks implausible, so exposure- and mileage-based figures may be distorted.
  • Estimated mileage
    No usable mileage was reported, so exposure was estimated from similar motor carriers. Mileage-based metrics here are approximate.
  • Limited inspection history
    Fewer than 5 roadside inspections on record, so there isn't enough data to score this motor carrier with high confidence — the score leans more on peers.

Track record

FMCSA record, Apr 2025 – Apr 2025 · grade scored on Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026
Crashes
1
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
1
0% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
—
no inspections
Intrastate avg 30.6%
Driver out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 1
Intrastate avg 8.5%
Violations
1
0 out-of-service

Inspected about as often as intrastate fleets of 6–9 trucks in Ohio (about 2 in 24 months would be typical; 59% of them had none).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q2 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q2 '25
vs 1,861 peer fleets
Inspections per power unit look like an outlier vs peers; read these rates with care.
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.062 0.016
Inspections 0.06 0.38
Violations 0.06 0.36
Critical violations 0.06 0.06

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: intrastate fleets, Small (advisory) power units, high-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

1 violation · 24 months
  • Unsafe driving No alert
    1 · 0 OOS
    Seat belt 1
  • Hours of service No alert
    0
  • Driver fitness No alert
    0
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    0
  • Drugs & alcohol No alert
    0
Out-of-service violations “No alert” = under FMCSA's BASIC intervention threshold

Violations by quarter

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No violation trend data

Crashes

24 months
  • May
    29
    2026
    Ohio
    Property damage only
    Daylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.

No other reportable crashes on the FMCSA record.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

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No MC, FF or MX docket on FMCSA's registration for this motor carrier, so there are no insurance filings to show. FMCSA collects filings only from registered for-hire authorities; other motor carriers keep proof of insurance (MCS-90) at their place of business.

FMCSA filings only, not a policy audit. Not part of the FRED grade. Wrong or out of date?

Where it happens

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Inspections by state
  • Ohio (HQ) 1