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DOT #767765 · KERNS CONSTRUCTION INC

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KERNS CONSTRUCTION INC

DOT# 767765 Stillwater, OK Authorized For-Hire / Private Property

(405) 372-2750 kellys@kernscompanies.com 1717 S Perkins Rd, Stillwater OK 74074

38 power units · all owned 10 drivers

Intrastate Only

Not enough record

Graded once the record supports it

28 yrs history · 14 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units: 38
Drivers · CDL: 10 · 10
Annual miles: 240k unreliable

Type	Own	Total
Trucks	15	15
Tractors	10	10
Trailers	16	16

Registration

Organization: CORPORATION
Registered: 08-28-1998 (28 yrs)
MCS-150 Update: 07-24-2025 (Biennial Update)
FRED Score Date: Nov 07, 2026
Officer: JEFF O. KERNS

Cargo

62.7

medium risk

Machinery/Large Objects General Freight Building Materials Other: SAND GRAVEL Construction

High-Risk Cargo: 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.

Exposure Unverified

The expected crashes on this page assume the filed fleet of 38 power units is real, but the roadside record corroborates little of it — 8 units seen in 24 months, 0.18 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).

Intrastate Only

Intrastate-only carrier — not required to file MCS-150. May be inspected less frequently than interstate carriers. Safety rates may have lower statistical confidence.

Not enough record to grade yet.

14 inspections and 1 crash 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: private fleets of 20–49 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 0.21×–1.72×

ExcellentStrongSatisf.SatisfactoryMarginalPoorCritical

▲ Similar fleets 1.0×

Expected crashes, next 12 months

0.4 vs 0.4 for similar fleets

Likely 0–1 crashes

This motor carrier

0.4

Similar fleets

0.4

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 (38 power units).

What the record shows

Crash history

betterworse

About typical. 1 injury crash on the FMCSA record in 24 months (about 0.5 a year); similar fleets have about 0.4 a year.

Roadside inspections

betterworse

Better than peers. Unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 0.76× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate -3%.

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.

Injury crashes

1 crash with 1 person hurt in 24 months.

Ask: claim status and driver history for these crashes.
Hazmat violations

3 hazmat violations, 1 out of service.
Filed fleet not seen on the road

Only 8 of the 38 filed power units were seen at a roadside inspection in 24 months (14 inspections in all). The crash expectation assumes all 38 are running.

Ask: how many trucks are actually operating, with the vehicle schedule.

Strengths

Driver out-of-service rate 0.0% vs 6.7% national.
No FMCSA BASIC alerts.

Data flags

Dangerous driving: 1
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, Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 · grade scored on Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026

Crashes

0 fatalities · 1 injury · 0 tow-aways

Inspections

50% clean (no violations)

Vehicle out-of-service

28.6%

2 of 7

National avg 22.3%

Driver out-of-service

0.0%

0 of 14

National avg 6.7%

Violations

3 out-of-service

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order

vs 11,996 peer fleets

	This motor carrier	Peers
Crashes	0.013	0.027
Inspections	0.33	1.02
Violations	0.17	0.71
Critical violations	0.04	0.14

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: 20–49 power units, medium-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

13 violations · 24 months

Vehicle maintenance No alert

8 · 2 OOS

Brakes 3 · Cargo securement 1 · Steering & suspension 1 · Tires 1 · Other parts 2
Unsafe driving No alert

2 · 0 OOS

Speeding 1 · Other 1
Hours of service No alert

0
Driver fitness No alert

0
Drugs & alcohol No alert

0
Hazmat

3 · 1 OOS

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

Dec

4

2024

Oklahoma
Injury · 1 person hurt
Daylight, two-way trafficway not divided.

No other reportable crashes on the FMCSA record.

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

Oklahoma (HQ) 14

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 (38 power units: 38 filed, 8 seen roadside in 24 months).

Crash Outlook vs Peer Fleet

crashes per year · same scale

Average peer fleet

0.4

Actual, per year in window

0.3

Projected, next 12 mo

0.4

0 0.25 0.5

We'd expect a typical fleet of 38 power units this active to have about 0.4 crashes a year — but only 8 of the 38 filed units were seen roadside in 24 months (0.18 inspections per filed unit-year), so this expectation assumes the filed fleet is real. This motor carrier recorded 1 in its scoring window (Sep 1, 2023 → Aug 31, 2026, about 0.3 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 0.4 over the next 12. When this motor carrier does crash, those crashes tend to be substantially more severe than average — roughly 3.3× the injury/fatal weight of a typical crash.

Fatal-crash risk: about 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 Sep 1, 2023 → Aug 31, 2026 · inspections Oct 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2026 · data as of Oct 29, 2026

Inside that window: 14 inspections and 1 crash.

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 (0.21×–1.72×) 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: Low · Z = 0.14 (posterior 0.33 × exposure corroboration)

Satisfactory — 0.86x its class rate (cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11). Class rate 0.012 crashes per power-unit-year for a 38-unit for-hire fleet (pu20_49). Violations 0.97x (driver behaviour 0.76x, out-of-service 0.91x, all violations 1.10x; 14 inspections). Experience 0.89x: 0.4 decayed crashes against 0.7 expected over 36 months (credibility 0.33, a 1.38). 80% range 0.21–1.72x. Exposure: 8 of 38 filed power units seen roadside in 24 months, 0.18 inspections per filed unit-year — the class expectation assumes the filed fleet is real; confidence cut. Last change: no change since the last run.

No change since the previous weekly run.

Scoring flags MCS-150 mileage unreliable (mileage is not in the grade) Intrastate-only operation (less roadside enforcement) 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) (informational — no grade effect)

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

1.2 crashes per 100 power-unit-years

38 power units (8 seen roadside — exposure unverified) · 0.45 expected crashes a year

Violation relativity

0.97×

14 inspections in window

Crash experience

0.89×

0.4 decayed crashes vs 0.7 expected · credibility 0.33

Driver behaviour

0.76×

Out-of-service rate

0.91×

All violations

1.10×

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 0.21–1.72×) · 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

C Property

Total Inspections

Driver Insp

Driver OOS

Vehicle Insp

Vehicle OOS

BASIC	Insp w/ Viol	Measure
Unsafe Driving	2	0.36
HOS Compliance	0	0.00
Driver Fitness	0	0.00
Controlled Substances	0	0.00
Vehicle Maintenance	4	2.85

SMS record data is sourced from FMCSA's Safety Measurement System (01-MAY-25 – 31-JAN-25) and may cover a different time window than the scoring window used for the FRED grade (Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026). Counts here may differ from the grade's in-window counts.

KERNS CONSTRUCTION INC

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 Crash 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 Crash Records

FMCSA Violation Records