Carrier profile · USDOT 334028 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Catawba Rental Co Inc

16 power unitsavg 11.4 yrLocal · 2 statesCLAREMONT, NC82/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN

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 0.0%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 7.1%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 6 vehicle and 14 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 26.1 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

14 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 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.

Expected band

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.4 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 16-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 16
Inspections · 24 mo: 14
Annualized: ≈7 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

41%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

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.

393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Sep 30, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues

0No log / no ELD

0False logs

0Drove over hours

Crash history· 122 total · 3 in 24 mo

122

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026	1	0	1	1
2025	1	0	0	1
2024	2	0	1	2
2023	1	0	1	1
2022	1	0	1	1
2021	2	0	1	2
2020	1	0	1	1
2019	2	0	0	2
2018	2	0	1	2
2017	3	0	2	3
2016	1	0	1	1
2013	4	0	1	4
2012	3	0	0	3
2011	1	0	0	1
2010	2	0	0	2
2009	4	1	0	4
2008	11	1	8	10
2007	14	0	6	14
2006	13	0	4	11
2004	8	0	4	8
2003	8	0	4	7
2002	3	0	1	3
2000	5	0	0	5
1999	2	0	1	1
1998	5	0	2	5
1997	5	0	3	4
1996	9	0	6	9
1995	4	0	2	4
1992	1	0	1	1
1991	1	0	0	0
1990	2	0	1	1

Date	State	Injuries	Tow-away
May 1, 2026	NC	2	Yes
Jul 1, 2025	OH	0	Yes
Oct 13, 2024	MD	1	Yes
Jul 25, 2024	NC	0	Yes
Feb 26, 2023	NC	2	Yes
May 27, 2022	NC	1	Yes
Jul 30, 2021	NJ	1	Yes
Jun 21, 2021	NC	0	Yes
Nov 25, 2020	NJ	1	Yes
Nov 24, 2019	NC	0	Yes
Nov 19, 2019	NC	0	Yes
Dec 8, 2018	NC	0	Yes
Aug 7, 2018	NC	1	Yes
Mar 3, 2017	NC	1	Yes
Feb 25, 2017	CA	1	Yes
Feb 1, 2017	NC	0	Yes
Mar 8, 2016	NC	2	Yes
Dec 13, 2013	NC	0	Yes
Dec 10, 2013	GA	2	Yes
Jun 14, 2013	NC	0	Yes
Jun 10, 2013	SC	0	Yes
May 14, 2012	NC	0	Yes
Feb 14, 2012	NC	0	Yes
Jan 12, 2012	NC	0	Yes
Feb 1, 2011	CT	0	Yes