A BETTER TRIPP MOVING & STORAGE COMPANY

DOT# 679167 MC# 316547 Houston, TX Authorized For-Hire
(713) 266-8348 WWW.ABETTERTRIPP.COM 5400 Mitchelldale Suite B-1, Houston TX 77092
6 power units 7 drivers 1.2M mi/yr · ~207k per unit
HazMat
Strong
FRED Score 75.4 / 100
Low confidence
29 yrs history · 3 roadside inspections

FMCSA Live Status

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
6
Drivers · CDL
7 · 2
Annual miles
1.2M
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 1 4 0 5
Tractors 0 1 0 1
Trailers 4 0 0 4

Registration

Organization
CORPORATION
FMCSA Rating
Satisfactory (02-26-2009) · 17 yr old
Registered
03-04-1997 (29 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
08-20-2025 (Biennial Update)
FRED Score Date
Nov 07, 2026
Officer
WILLIAM CORNEJO

Cargo

67.0
medium risk
Household Goods General Freight
High-Risk Cargo
General Freight, Household Goods

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.

High Utilization Fleet

This motor carrier reports 206,768 miles per power unit annually, which exceeds typical single-driver limits (~150,000–180,000 miles/year). This motor carrier is still rated, but the high utilization may indicate:

  • Team driving operations where trucks run nearly 24/7 with rotating drivers
  • Stale fleet count in MCS-150 (power units not updated while operations expanded)
  • Data entry anomaly in annual mileage reporting
  • Expedited/dedicated routes with unusually high truck utilization

Expected crash rate is probably lower than similar fleets (about a 70% chance), but the record is too thin to say by how much.

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.

Per truck, fleets like this one are expected to crash about 0.7× as often as the median active fleet of 6–9 trucks.

This motor carrier 0.75×
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▲ 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
Chance of a fatal crash, next 12 months
<1%
Below similar fleets.
What's driving the grade
Crash history
betterworse
About typical. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.1 a year.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Better than peers. Violations 0.55×, out-of-service orders 0.55× and unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 0.67× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate -13%: roadside results weigh far less than crash history.

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.

  • Little roadside history
    Only 3 inspections in 24 months for 6 power units; the record says little either way.
    Ask: confirm the fleet is operating at the filed size.

Track record

FMCSA record, Jan 2025 – Oct 2025 · grade scored on Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026
Crashes
0
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
3
67% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 2
National avg 22.3%
Driver out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 3
National avg 6.7%
Violations
1
0 out-of-service
Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q1 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q1 '25 Q2 '25: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q2 '25 Q3 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q3 '25 Q4 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q4 '25
vs 70,135 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.000 0.039
Inspections 0.75 1.41
Violations 0.08 1.44
Critical violations 0.00 0.26

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

What they get cited for

1 violation · 24 months
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    1 · 0 OOS
    Lights 1
  • 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)
$750,000 · TRANSGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA INC.
on record since Oct 15, 2023 · FMCSA minimum $750,000 · no gap on FMCSA's record since Mar 1997
Cargo filing
required · on file · TRANSGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA INC. since Mar 13, 2018
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 May 16, 2002)

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
  • Colorado 2
  • New Mexico 1