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DOT #2568352 · TROPICAL TRASH LLC

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TROPICAL TRASH LLC

DBA: TROPICAL TRASH

DOT# 2568352 MC# 897219 Ridgeland, SC Authorized For-Hire / Private Property

(843) 681-2207 info@tropicaltrash.com 592 Chancellor Rd, Ridgeland SC 29936

16 power units · all owned 24 drivers

Not enough record

Graded once the record supports it

12 yrs history · 0 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units: 16
Drivers · CDL: 24 · 10
Annual miles: 250k unreliable

Type	Own	Total
Trucks	15	15
Tractors	1	1
Trailers	1	1

Registration

Registered: 12-31-2014 (12 yrs)
MCS-150 Update: 07-22-2025
FRED Score Date: Nov 08, 2026
Officer: LAURA DUGGAN

Cargo

55.6

medium risk

Intermodal Containers General Freight Other: GARBAGE C&D DOMESTIC SEPTIC Garbage/Refuse

High-Risk Cargo: General Freight

Note: "General Freight" is a catch-all; the actual cargo mix and its risk may differ.

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

Exposure Unverified

The expected crashes on this page assume the filed fleet of 16 power units is real, but the roadside record corroborates little of it — 0 units seen in 24 months, 0.03 inspections per filed unit-year. Verify the fleet size before relying on the crash expectation.

Mileage Unreliable

MCS-150 annual mileage appears too low for fleet size given observed 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).

No Interstate Operating Authority

This carrier is not authorized for interstate for-hire operations. They may still operate legally as an intrastate for-hire carrier.

Not enough record to grade yet.

No inspections and no crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months fit anything from an Excellent fleet to a Poor one.

Similar fleets: interstate fleets of 10–19 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

80% likely range 0.11×–2.04×

ExcellentStrongSatisf.SatisfactoryMarginalPoorCritical

▲ Similar fleets 1.0×

Expected crashes, next 12 months

0.1 vs 0.1 for similar fleets

Most likely none

This motor carrier

0.1

Similar fleets

0.1

A record this thin can't pin that down: about a 1-in-6 chance it runs at Poor-level crash rates.

Ask

Loss runs for the last 3 years, and confirm the fleet is operating at its filed size (16 power units).

What the record shows

Crash history

betterworse

About typical. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.1 a year. The grade counts 1 crash in its 36-month scoring window, recent ones weighted most.

Roadside inspections

betterworse

Worse than peers. Out-of-service orders 1.38× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they barely move its crash estimate.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The estimate already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are context only.

Filed fleet not seen on the road

Only 0 of the 16 filed power units were seen at a roadside inspection in 24 months (0 inspections in all). The crash expectation assumes all 16 are running.

Ask: how many trucks are actually operating, with the vehicle schedule (the MCS-150 was last updated Jul 2025).

Data flags

No active operating authority
The motor carrier's interstate for-hire authority is revoked or inactive, so it isn't currently cleared to haul interstate for hire.
Unreliable reported mileage
The motor carrier's self-reported annual mileage (MCS-150) looks implausible, so exposure- and mileage-based figures may be distorted.
Unusual inspection rate
Inspections per truck fall outside the normal range (1st–99th percentile), which can point to a mis-reported fleet size or data issues.
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, last 24 months · grade scored on Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026

Crashes

0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways

Inspections

roadside inspections

Vehicle out-of-service

—

no inspections

National avg 22.3%

Driver out-of-service

—

no inspections

National avg 6.7%

Violations

0 out-of-service

Inspected less often than interstate fleets of 10–19 trucks in South Carolina (about 20 in 24 months would be typical).

vs 14,144 peer fleets

Inspections per power unit look like an outlier vs peers; read these rates with care.

	This motor carrier	Peers
Crashes	0.000	0.034
Inspections	0.09	1.23
Violations	0.00	0.97
Critical violations	0.00	0.18

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: interstate fleets, 10–19 power units, medium-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

0 violations · 24 months

No violations on the FMCSA record in the last 24 months.

Violations by quarter

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No violation trend data

Crashes

24 months

No reportable crashes on the FMCSA record in the last 24 months.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

FMCSA record through May 14, 2026 · no change recorded by FMCSA since

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Last on FMCSA's record (May 14, 2026): No liability filing on FMCSA's record through May 14, 2026.
Cargo filing: not required by FMCSA (household-goods motor carriers only); the cargo policy is not on FMCSA's record

Who insures fleets like this →

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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How the estimate is calculated

The model, its inputs, the window it scored and its confidence. For actuaries and anyone checking the work.

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

The FRED Score predicts this motor carrier's crash risk over the next 12 months — how often they're likely to crash and how severe those crashes tend to be — versus a typical fleet of its size (16 power units: 16 filed, 0 seen roadside in 24 months).

Crash Outlook vs Peer Fleet

crashes per year · same scale

Average peer fleet

0.1

Actual, per year in window

0.3

Projected, next 12 mo

0.1

0 0.25 0.5

We'd expect a typical fleet of 16 power units this active to have about 0.1 crashes a year — but only 0 of the 16 filed units were seen roadside in 24 months (0.03 inspections per filed unit-year), so this expectation assumes the filed fleet is real. This motor carrier recorded 1 in its scoring window (Oct 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026, about 0.3 a year) — about 2.7× a typical fleet. Factoring in its inspection and violation record inside that window and the credibility of its own experience, the model projects about 0.1 over the next 12. When this motor carrier does crash, those crashes tend to be substantially more severe than average — roughly 3.4× the injury/fatal weight of a typical crash.

Fatal-crash risk: less than a 1% chance in the next 12 months

Modeled fatal-crash rate is about typical for similar fleets (likelihood of at least one fatal crash, from its exposure and safety profile; the filed fleet is not corroborated roadside).

Track Record Used

Crashes Oct 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026 · inspections Nov 1, 2024 → Oct 31, 2026 · data as of Nov 4, 2026

Inside that window: 1 inspection and 1 crash. The FMCSA record tables now hold 0 inspections and 0 crashes in that window — the SMS data moved after this grade was computed.

Why there is no grade. Every grade but Satisfactory needs at least a 60% posterior past its cut; Satisfactory is what is left when none passes. Here the 80% likely range (0.11×–2.04×) still runs from below the Excellent cut (0.60×) to above the Poor cut (1.57×), so the record can't separate a best-in-class fleet from a poor one and the page shows no grade and no FRED Score. The forecasts are unchanged: in backtests, records this thin crash at their forecast on average but scatter about 2.6× as widely around it as records that support a Satisfactory grade.

Confidence: Prior-only · Z = 0.01 (posterior 0.16 × exposure corroboration) Provisional

Satisfactory — 0.90x its class rate (cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11). Class rate 0.008 crashes per power-unit-year for a 16-unit for-hire fleet (pu10_19). Violations 1.02x (driver behaviour 0.91x, out-of-service 1.38x, all violations 1.02x; 1 inspections). Experience 0.89x: 0.1 decayed crashes against 0.2 expected over 36 months (credibility 0.16, a 1.03). 80% range 0.11–2.04x. Exposure: 0 of 16 filed power units seen roadside in 24 months, 0.03 inspections per filed unit-year — the class expectation assumes the filed fleet is real; confidence cut. Last change: fleet size or class.

Since the previous weekly run the risk relativity moved -1.8%, driven by fleet size or class attributes.

Scoring flags MCS-150 mileage unreliable (mileage is not in the grade) Thin record (low credibility: little exposure behind the grade) Filed fleet not corroborated roadside — expected crashes assume the filed units are real; an Excellent or Strong grade is capped one band (interim)

What Drives This Score

1.00× = this motor carrier's class rate

FRED multiplies three factors: the class rate a fleet of this size, class and activity is expected to run, a violation relativity from its roadside record, and its own crash experience over 36 months weighted by how much exposure stands behind it. The grade is the band of the resulting relativity to class, then the screens.

Class rate

0.8 crashes per 100 power-unit-years

16 power units (0 seen roadside — exposure unverified) · 0.12 expected crashes a year

Violation relativity

1.02×

1 inspection in window

Crash experience

0.89×

0.1 decayed crashes vs 0.2 expected · credibility 0.16

Driver behaviour

0.91×

Out-of-service rate

1.38×

All violations

1.02×

0×1× class2×+

Each sub-relativity is shrunk toward its cohort rate when the record is thin (Bühlmann credibility), so a short record reads close to 1.00×.

Relativity to class 0.90× (80% range 0.11–2.04×) · band Satisfactory · cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11, Critical above

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FMCSA records

BASIC measures and every inspection, violation and crash, sortable and filterable.

FMCSA BASIC Scores

AB Property

Total Inspections

Driver Insp

Driver OOS

Vehicle Insp

Vehicle OOS

BASIC	Insp w/ Viol	Measure	Alert
Unsafe Driving	0	0.00
HOS Compliance	0	0.00
Driver Fitness	0	0.00
Controlled Substances	0	0.00
Vehicle Maintenance	0	0.00

TROPICAL TRASH LLC

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Fleet & equipment

Registration

Cargo

Worth a closer look

Track record

What they get cited for

Violations by quarter

Crashes

Insurance filed with FMCSA

Where it happens

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

FMCSA BASIC Scores