Carrier profile · USDOT 102341 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

American Paper Towel Company

12 power unitsavg 6.6 yrRegional · 4 statesCARLSTADT, NJ100/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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Safety

Roadside out-of-service rates versus the national benchmark, inspection and crash trends, decoded violation themes, and ELD / hours-of-service integrity — the full safety picture behind the verdict.

Out-of-service rate· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 18.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 11 vehicle and 16 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

20.0% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 12.1 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

16 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '25 · 3

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal

Inspection coverage

How heavily FMCSA inspects this fleet for its size — it tells you how much to trust the safety signals above. Thin coverage on a young authority is a fraud signal nobody else surfaces.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 12-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
12
Inspections · 24 mo
16
Annualized
≈8 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
43%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
36%
Vehicle Maintenance
Vektor peer est.

Percentile = standing among same-exposure peers (higher = worse). FMCSA publishes percentiles for only some carriers (shown official); elsewhere we show a Vektor peer-percentile estimate, or the absolute SMS measure when there are too few inspections to rank.

Violation themes· decoded · grouped by BASIC

What this carrier actually gets cited for — FMCSA violation codes decoded into plain English, ranked by frequency.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.201 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 19 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 12 total · 0 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20192012
20181001
20173003
20162012
20141001
20071011
19951010
19941001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 9, 2019NJ00Yes
Sep 27, 2019NY01Yes
Jun 22, 2018NJ00Yes
Oct 12, 2017NJ00Yes
Aug 17, 2017NJ00Yes
Apr 17, 2017NJ00Yes
Oct 19, 2016NJ00Yes
Sep 23, 2016NJ02Yes
Sep 30, 2014NJ00Yes
Dec 13, 2007NJ01Yes
Jul 18, 1995NY02No
May 27, 1994NJ00Yes