Carrier profile · USDOT 316596 · MC-367397 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Central Garden & Pet Company

164 power unitsNational · 42 statesCULLMAN, AL88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-367397 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linkspenningtonseed.comFMCSA SAFER

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 8.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 197 vehicle and 310 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

13.2% · 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 2.8 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

305 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '25 · 21

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 164-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
164
Inspections · 24 mo
315
Annualized
≈158 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

30%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
45%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
56%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
24%
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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 520 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 103 total · 7 in 24 mo

103
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
40
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20256025
20241001
20233003
20225014
20216116
20207027
20199029
20183123
20172012
20165015
20156016
20142012
20111010
20096016
20084004
20072012
20067077
20052012
20043013
20034014
20027057
20012002
20003033
19991011
19981010
19972022
19952012
19941001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 29, 2025MN00Yes
Jul 18, 2025FL01No
Jun 25, 2025CA00Yes
Mar 27, 2025CA00Yes
Feb 25, 2025KY00Yes
Jan 3, 2025PA02Yes
Dec 24, 2024IN00Yes
Oct 11, 2023FL00Yes
Sep 8, 2023MN00Yes
Aug 15, 2023GA00Yes
Dec 23, 2022CA00Yes
Oct 18, 2022MI00Yes
Apr 7, 2022OK00Yes
Mar 15, 2022FL00Yes
Feb 3, 2022NY03No
Dec 14, 2021KY11Yes
Aug 17, 2021CA00Yes
Jun 3, 2021WA00Yes
Apr 12, 2021MI00Yes
Mar 17, 2021OH00Yes
Mar 2, 2021OH00Yes
Nov 19, 2020OK01Yes
Nov 9, 2020KS00Yes
Nov 2, 2020MN00Yes
Oct 27, 2020IN00Yes