PELLAS AUTOMOTIVE LLC

DOT# 2942391 MC# 96583 Hastings, PA Authorized For-Hire / Private Property
(814) 247-5182 pellasautomotive@gmail.com 1247 Spangler Street, Hastings PA 16646-0537
5 power units · all owned 5 drivers 675k mi/yr · ~135k per unit
HazMat
Satisfactory
FRED Score 75.0 / 100
Low confidence
10 yrs history · 11 roadside inspections
Upside capped

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
5
Drivers · CDL
5 · 3
Annual miles
675k
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 5 0 0 5
Tractors 0 0 0 0
Trailers 0 0 0 0

Registration

Registered
10-30-2016 (10 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
05-14-2026
FRED Score Date
Nov 08, 2026
Officer
DUSTIN PELLAS

Cargo

75.3
high risk
Motor Vehicles Drive/Tow Away Machinery/Large Objects General Freight
High-Risk Cargo
Motor Vehicles, Drive/Tow Away, Machinery Large, 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.

Upside Withheld

Its risk relativity (0.74× similar fleets) would put it in Strong; this rule holds it at Satisfactory:

  • Strong withheld: the posterior is not confident enough that risk sits below 0.76× class

The downside is never capped.

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.

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

Similar fleets: interstate 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 0.74×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ Similar fleets 1.0×
Expected crashes, next 12 months
0.3 vs 0.4 for similar fleets
Likely 0–1 crashes
This motor carrier
0.3
Similar fleets
0.4
Chance of a fatal crash, next 12 months
<1%
Below similar fleets.
What's driving the grade
Crash history
betterworse
Leans better, not yet proven. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.4 a year.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Better than peers. Violations 0.53× and unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 0.64× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate -11%: roadside results weigh far less than crash history. It's inspected more often than most fleets its size.

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
  • No reportable crashes in 24 months.
  • Driver out-of-service rate 0.0% vs 6.7% national.
  • No FMCSA BASIC alerts.

Track record

FMCSA record, Jan 2025 – Jul 2026 · grade scored on Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026
Crashes
0
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
11
73% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
33.3%
1 of 3
National avg 22.3%
Driver out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 11
National avg 6.7%
Violations
5
1 out-of-service

Inspected more often than interstate fleets of 2–5 trucks in Pennsylvania (about 6 in 24 months would be typical; 35% of them had none).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q1 '25: 2 inspections, 0 out of service 2 Q1 '25 Q2 '25: 2 inspections, 1 out of service 2 Q2 '25 Q3 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q3 '25 Q4 '25: 3 inspections, 0 out of service 3 Q4 '25 Q1 '26: 2 inspections, 0 out of service 2 Q1 '26 Q2 '26: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q2 '26 Q3 '26: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q3 '26
vs 4,754 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.000 0.039
Inspections 1.80 1.38
Violations 0.50 1.31
Critical violations 0.10 0.27

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

What they get cited for

5 violations · 24 months
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    4 · 1 OOS
    Brakes 3 · Lights 1
  • Unsafe driving No alert
    1 · 0 OOS
    Speeding 1
  • Hours of service No alert
    0
  • Driver fitness 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

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)
$750,000 · EMPLOYERS MUTUAL CASUALTY CO.
on record since Apr 22, 2026 · FMCSA minimum $750,000 · no gap on FMCSA's record since May 2018
Cargo filing
not required by FMCSA (household-goods motor carriers only); the cargo policy is not on FMCSA's record
36 months to May 14, 2026
  • One liability insurer throughout
  • 2 cancellation notices filed by insurers, each replaced before it took effect
  • No gap in filed liability coverage while liability was required

Operating authority active (FMCSA's L&I record of May 14, 2026, status since Jul 10, 2018)

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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Inspections by state
  • Pennsylvania (HQ) 10
  • Maryland 1