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CARSON FREIGHT LLC 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 16.1% (24-mo)31 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 13.9% (24-mo)65 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

37.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 7.0 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
≈1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 24-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
24
Inspections · 24 mo
65
Annualized
≈33 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

56%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
30%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
85%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
69%
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 Driving19
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 3 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness10 · 8 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 4 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

19 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/01/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

14ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 79% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 14 total · 2 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251011
20243003
20232002
20222011
20212012
20202002
20191001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/03/2026GA00Yes
05/24/2025TX01Yes
06/28/2024KY00Yes
05/22/2024AR00Yes
03/13/2024GA00Yes
11/01/2023SC00Yes
05/10/2023GA00Yes
10/20/2022TN01No
08/15/2022LA00Yes
10/01/2021TX00Yes
06/18/2021TX03Yes
09/07/2020AL00Yes
08/01/2020AL00Yes
11/23/2019TX00Yes