Carrier profile · USDOT 216629 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Arizona Public Service Company

DBA PINNACLE WEST - APS

560 power unitsavg 7.1 yrLocal · 2 statesPHOENIX, AZ88/100
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 22.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 9 vehicle and 12 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 23.3 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

11 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 560-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
560
Inspections · 24 mo
12
Annualized
≈6 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
.02measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
12%
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 Driving10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.87 Warning flags on projecting loadsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 20 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 63 total · 2 in 24 mo

63
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
19
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251011
20241001
20233013
20221010
20212002
20203003
20193003
20182002
20171001
20166006
20158018
20062022
20054014
200410049
20033023
20025135
20014014
20001001
19991111
19951011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 16, 2026AZ00Yes
Apr 3, 2025AZ01Yes
Aug 15, 2024AZ00Yes
Sep 29, 2023AZ01Yes
May 31, 2023AZ00Yes
Feb 14, 2023AZ00Yes
Jul 6, 2022AZ01No
Nov 19, 2021AZ00Yes
Feb 11, 2021AZ00Yes
May 5, 2020AZ00Yes
Jan 23, 2020AZ00Yes
Jan 15, 2020AZ00Yes
Nov 20, 2019AZ00Yes
Mar 13, 2019AZ00Yes
Feb 8, 2019AZ00Yes
Sep 17, 2018AZ00Yes
Jul 9, 2018AZ00Yes
Jul 31, 2017AZ00Yes
Nov 22, 2016AZ00Yes
Oct 13, 2016AZ00Yes
Mar 24, 2016AZ00Yes
Feb 1, 2016AZ00Yes
Jan 11, 2016AZ00Yes
Jan 5, 2016AZ00Yes
Jul 27, 2015AZ00Yes