Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2977489

BACK AND FORTH INC

GILROY, CA 85

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 30.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 46 vehicle and 59 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

38.9% · 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 11.4 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈29.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
1
Inspections · 24 mo
59
Annualized
≈30 / yr
Coverage
≈29.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

92%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
38%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
72%
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 Driving49
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 4 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 8 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 3 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving6
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4
  • 390.3 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regs (general)Unsafe Driving3

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 62 inspections — a clean logging history.