C N BROWN COMPANY 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 1.8% (24-mo)57 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)64 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

0.0% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 1.8 pts across the window — latest under 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
0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 40-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
40
Inspections · 24 mo
64
Annualized
32 / yr
Coverage
0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
20%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
8%
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.

  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance2
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving2
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 12/31/2023. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 97 total · 5 in 24 mo

97
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
34
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20253023
20234004
20204014
20192011
20184123
20174024
20163013
20153013
20144004
20133023
20122122
20115005
20103013
20092012
20082002
20075035
20064033
20052002
20044004
20037027
20021001
20012002
20001001
19993022
19961010
19942011
19935133
19928032
19912002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/30/2026ME00Yes
02/24/2026ME00Yes
12/29/2025ME01Yes
05/28/2025VT00Yes
02/22/2025ME02Yes
12/19/2023ME00Yes
11/02/2023ME00Yes
09/07/2023ME00Yes
02/03/2023ME00Yes
12/31/2020ME01Yes
12/07/2020ME00Yes
05/20/2020ME00Yes
01/27/2020ME00Yes
12/19/2019ME00Yes
12/03/2019ME01No
11/30/2018ME00Yes
08/28/2018ME11Yes
07/10/2018ME01No
02/03/2018ME00Yes
12/22/2017NH00Yes
09/18/2017NH01Yes
01/23/2017ME01Yes
01/09/2017NH00Yes
05/10/2016ME00Yes
02/24/2016ME00Yes