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DOT #311206 · SAM BEETZ & SONS

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SAM BEETZ & SONS

DOT# 311206 DUNS# 30571707 Mendota, IL Authorized For-Hire / Exempt For-Hire / Private Property

(815) 539-6904 rowpick@yahoo.com 684 N 44th Rd, Mendota IL 61342-9201

9 tractors 18 drivers 280k mi/yr · ~31k per unit

Not enough record

Graded once the record supports it

38 yrs history · 2 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units: 9
Drivers · CDL: 18 · 18
Annual miles: 280k

Type	Own	Term	Total
Trucks	0	0	0
Tractors	2	7	9
Trailers	20	0	20

Registration

Organization: PARTNERSHIP
FMCSA Rating: Satisfactory (10-16-1990) · 36 yr old
Registered: 03-18-1988 (38 yrs)
MCS-150 Update: 12-16-2025 (Address Change)
FRED Score Date: Nov 08, 2026
Officer: JOHN S BEETZ
Officer: ZACHARY J BEETZ

Cargo

59.4

medium risk

Machinery/Large Objects Building Materials Grain/Feed/Hay Farm Supplies Construction Garbage/Refuse

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.

Not enough record to grade yet.

2 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 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.

80% likely range 0.20×–1.73×

ExcellentStrongSatisf.SatisfactoryMarginalPoorCritical

▲ Similar fleets 1.0×

Expected crashes, next 12 months

0.2 vs 0.2 for similar fleets

Likely 0–1 crashes

This motor carrier

0.2

Similar fleets

0.2

A record this thin can't pin that down: about a 1-in-8 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 (9 power units).

What the record shows

Crash history

betterworse

Too little record to tell. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.2 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 estimate already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are context only.

Little roadside history

Only 2 inspections in 24 months for 9 power units, where interstate fleets of 6–9 trucks in Illinois average about 12; the record says little either way.

Ask: confirm the fleet is operating at the filed size (the MCS-150 was last updated Dec 2025).

Data flags

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, Nov 2024 – Jul 2026 · grade scored on Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026

Crashes

0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways

Inspections

50% clean (no violations)

Vehicle out-of-service

—

no inspections

National avg 22.3%

Driver out-of-service

0.0%

0 of 2

National avg 6.7%

Violations

0 out-of-service

Inspected less often than interstate fleets of 6–9 trucks in Illinois (about 12 in 24 months would be typical).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order

vs 57,530 peer fleets

	This motor carrier	Peers
Crashes	0.000	0.043
Inspections	0.17	1.57
Violations	0.06	1.56
Critical violations	0.06	0.29

	This motor carrier	Peers
Crashes	0.000	0.069
Inspections	0.54	2.49
Violations	0.18	2.52
Critical violations	0.18	0.45

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

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

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

Illinois (HQ) 2

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 (9 power units: 9 filed, 2 seen roadside in 24 months).

Crash Outlook vs Peer Fleet

crashes per year · same scale

Average peer fleet

0.2

Actual, per year in window

0.0

Projected, next 12 mo

0.2

0 0.25 0.5

We'd expect a typical fleet of 9 power units this active to have about 0.2 crashes a year. This motor carrier recorded 0 in its scoring window (Oct 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026, about 0.0 a year) — fewer than a typical fleet. Factoring in its inspection and violation record inside that window and the credibility of its own experience, the model projects about 0.2 over the next 12.

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).

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: 2 inspections and 0 crashes.

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 (0.20×–1.73×) 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 = 0.07 (posterior 0.15 × exposure corroboration) Provisional

Satisfactory — 0.86x its class rate (cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11). Class rate 0.023 crashes per power-unit-year for a 9-unit for-hire fleet (pu6_9). Violations 1.02x (driver behaviour 1.12x, out-of-service 0.94x, all violations 1.11x; 2 inspections). Experience 0.85x: 0.0 decayed crashes against 0.3 expected over 36 months (credibility 0.15, a 1.78). 80% range 0.20–1.73x. Last change: older crashes rolling off.

Since the previous weekly run the risk relativity moved -0.0%, driven by older crashes rolling off the 36-month ramp.

Scoring flags Thin record (low credibility: little exposure behind the grade)

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

2.3 crashes per 100 power-unit-years

9 power units · 0.20 expected crashes a year

Violation relativity

1.02×

2 inspections in window

Crash experience

0.85×

0.0 decayed crashes vs 0.3 expected · credibility 0.15

Driver behaviour

1.12×

Out-of-service rate

0.94×

All violations

1.11×

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 0.86× (80% range 0.20–1.73×) · 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
Unsafe Driving	1	0.80
HOS Compliance	0	0.00
Driver Fitness	0	0.00
Controlled Substances	0	0.00
Vehicle Maintenance	0	0.00

SMS record data is sourced from FMCSA's Safety Measurement System (19-NOV-24 – 28-JUL-26) and may cover a different time window than the scoring window used for the FRED grade (Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026). Counts here may differ from the grade's in-window counts.

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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

FMCSA Inspection Records

FMCSA Violation Records

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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

FMCSA Inspection Records

FMCSA Violation Records