M R CARRIER
Legal: MELVIN L RICHARDSON
Risk factors
High riskVioCodes scoreA weighted read of the public FMCSA signals below — authority, insurance, out-of-service, crashes, roadside OOS rates, and carrier connections. A starting point for vetting, not a guarantee.
Roadside inspection performance
Out-of-service rate vs national average. Lower is better.
Company profile
FMCSA censusAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE
- Intrastate · <100 mi1 drivers
- Company officer
- MELVIN RICHARDSON
- Operation
- Intrastate (Non-Hazmat)
- Registered since
- 2005-12-22
- Last MCS-150 update
- 2024-07-29
- Census status
- Active
Fleet: 1 trucks · 1 owned tractors.
Source: FMCSA Company Census File (data.transportation.gov). Fleet and driver counts are self-reported on the carrier’s most recent MCS-150 filing.
Connections
carrier graphThis carrier shares addresses, officers or emails with 95 other carriers — review the connections below as part of your vetting.
This carrier’s phone is shared by many carriers (likely a dispatch/registration service), so phone links are omitted. Shared VINs come from FMCSA roadside-inspection records — a vehicle inspected under more than one carrier, often a fleet transfer or trailer interchange. Other links come from the FMCSA census. Shared identifiers are common and often legitimate — treat these as leads to investigate, not proof of wrongdoing.
Activity history
22 events- 08/14/2024Insurance cancelled — PROGRESSIVE SPECIALTY INS. CO.
BIPD/Primary · policy CA981159331
- 07/29/2024MCS-150 update filed
0.0M mi reported (2024)
- 05/22/2024MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER — REINSTATED
REVOKED (08/20/2024)
- 04/03/2024Out-of-service order rescinded
- 04/01/2022Federal out-of-service order
New Entrant Revoked - Refusal of Audit/No Contact
- 10/29/2020Out-of-service order rescinded
- 12/28/2009Federal out-of-service order
New Entrant Revoked - Refusal of Audit/No Contact
- 01/15/2009Insurance cancelled — CANAL INSURANCE CO.
BIPD/Primary · policy PIA02388500
- 10/17/2008Insurance cancelled — CANAL INSURANCE CO.
BIPD/Primary · policy PIA02388500
- 09/22/2008COMMON — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (09/24/2008)
- 09/17/2008Insurance cancelled — CANAL INSURANCE CO.
BIPD/Primary · policy PIA02388500
- 09/15/2008COMMON — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (09/24/2008)
- 08/21/2008COMMON — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (08/27/2008)
- 08/14/2008Out-of-service order rescinded
- 07/08/2008Federal out-of-service order
New Entrant Revoked - Refusal of Audit/No Contact
- 09/22/2007Insurance cancelled — CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.
BIPD/Primary · policy 472714
- 08/27/2007COMMON — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (09/25/2007)
- 07/25/2007Insurance cancelled — CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.
BIPD/Primary · policy 472714
- 06/28/2007COMMON — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (07/03/2007)
- 05/25/2007Insurance cancelled — CAROLINA CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.
BIPD/Primary · policy 472714
- 01/09/2007MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER — GRANTED
REVOKED (01/21/2009)
- 12/22/2005Registered with FMCSA
AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE
Merged from FMCSA authority, insurance, out-of-service, and census records.
Operations
Classification
- AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE
Area served
- Intrastate (Non-Hazmat)
FMCSA safety rating
- Rating
- Not rated
- Type
- —
- Rated
- —
- Last review
- —
MCS-150 registration
- Form date
- 2024-07-29
- Reported mileage
- 1 mi (2024)
Changes on file
FMCSA census historyApril, 2021
First on-record entry — MELVIN L RICHARDSON, CENTER POINT, AL
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