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AMERICAN PLANT FOOD CORPORATION Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 23.3% (24-mo)43 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)45 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

58.3% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 4.7 pts across the window — latest above the 22.26% national benchmark.

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 21-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
21
Inspections · 24 mo
45
Annualized
≈23 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

42%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
23%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
42%
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 Driving29
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance11 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 1 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance7
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 6 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance4
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance3
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

7 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 07/29/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 80% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 19 total · 0 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20171010
20163013
20151001
20121010
20101001
20081011
20072002
20052022
20041001
20032002
20022002
20002012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
12/08/2017TX02No
11/07/2016TX00Yes
06/20/2016TX00Yes
06/07/2016TX01Yes
12/17/2015TX00Yes
06/09/2012TX01No
07/01/2010TX00Yes
07/31/2008TX01Yes
12/21/2007TX00Yes
05/08/2007TX00Yes
12/07/2005TX04Yes
12/07/2005TX04Yes
08/09/2004TX00Yes
09/25/2003TX00Yes
08/20/2003TX00Yes
09/17/2002TX00Yes
03/01/2002TX00Yes
07/01/2000TX01Yes
01/12/2000TX00Yes