COOKE EQUIPMENT INC

DOT# 520355 MC# 895845 Billings, MT Authorized For-Hire
(307) 272-0792 dccompany16@yahoo.com 333 S 80th St W, Billings MT 59106
9 tractors · all owned 8 drivers
HazMat
Not enough record
Graded once the record supports it
33 yrs history · 6 roadside inspections

FMCSA Live Status

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
9
Drivers · CDL
8 · 8
Annual miles
70k unreliable
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 0 0 0 0
Tractors 9 0 0 9
Trailers 2 0 0 2

Registration

Organization
CORPORATION
FMCSA Rating
Satisfactory (02-07-2025)
Registered
04-22-1993 (33 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
04-08-2026 (Address Change)
FRED Score Date
Nov 07, 2026
Officer
RILEY O COOKE
Officer
VICKIE L COOKE

Cargo

72.8
high risk
Motor Vehicles Mobile Homes Machinery/Large Objects General Freight Other: CARNIVAL EQUIPMENT
High-Risk Cargo
Motor Vehicles, Mobile Homes, 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.

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 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).

Not enough record to grade yet.

6 inspections and no crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months fit anything from an Excellent fleet to a Poor one. It leans better than similar fleets (about a 70% chance), but not by enough to grade.

Similar fleets: for-hire 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×–1.77×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ 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-7 chance it runs at Poor-level crash rates.

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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
Leans better, not yet proven. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.2 a year.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Mixed. Violations 2.38× and out-of-service orders 1.33× the rate expected for its inspections, but unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 0.62×. Together they move its crash estimate +4%: roadside results weigh far less than crash history.

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.

  • Brakes and lights
    Brakes are 8 of 17 violations (47%). Brake or light defects led to 4 out-of-service orders.
    Ask: the preventive-maintenance schedule and shop records.
Strengths
  • No reportable crashes in 24 months.
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.

Track record

FMCSA record, Sep 2025 – Jun 2026 · grade scored on Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026
Crashes
0
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
6
50% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
66.7%
2 of 3
National avg 22.3%
Driver out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 6
National avg 6.7%
Violations
17
4 out-of-service
Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q3 '25: 2 inspections, 1 out of service 2 Q3 '25 Q4 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q4 '25 Q1 '26: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q1 '26 Q2 '26: 2 inspections, 1 out of service 2 Q2 '26
vs 6,610 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.000 0.032
Inspections 0.83 1.10
Violations 0.94 1.04
Critical violations 0.00 0.21

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

What they get cited for

17 violations · 24 months
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    17 · 4 OOS
    Brakes 8 · Lights 3 · Cargo securement 1 · Wheels & hubs 1 · Other parts 4
  • Unsafe driving No alert
    0
  • 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)
$1,000,000 · UNITED FINANCIAL CASUALTY COMPANY
on record since Sep 14, 2018 · FMCSA minimum $750,000 · no gap on FMCSA's record since Dec 2014
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
  • No gap in filed liability coverage while liability was required

Operating authority active (FMCSA's L&I record of May 14, 2026, status since Oct 10, 2017)

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
  • Montana (HQ) 3
  • Wyoming 2
  • Washington 1