Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 331112

COLD FRONT DISTRIBUTION LLC

WESTMINSTER, CO 70

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 6.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 76 vehicle and 110 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

5.0% · 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 8.3 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.

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 126-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
126
Inspections · 24 mo
110
Annualized
≈55 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

17%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
37%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
62%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
7%
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 Driving33
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance24 · 4 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving12
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance6
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness3 · 1 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving3 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.25 Lighting device requirementsVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 02/16/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
2False logs
1Drove over hours

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 29 total · 3 in 24 mo

29
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252011
20242002
20232002
20221001
20194004
20183023
20172022
20162002
20111001
20101111
20042012
20021001
20011001
20002002
19961001
19941001
19931011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
08/26/2025MO01No
05/05/2025MO00Yes
09/18/2024TX00Yes
05/02/2024CO00Yes
10/24/2023MN00Yes
02/15/2023SD00Yes
07/12/2022CO00Yes
10/31/2019WI00Yes
07/02/2019WY00Yes
03/04/2019CO00Yes
01/04/2019TX00Yes
11/15/2018NM013Yes
10/11/2018MN00Yes
03/07/2018CO01Yes
08/14/2017TX01Yes
06/12/2017WI01Yes
06/29/2016MO00Yes
01/28/2016TX00Yes
07/26/2011TX00Yes
08/03/2010NM11Yes
10/11/2004TX00Yes
02/13/2004TX01Yes
05/30/2002TX00Yes
08/16/2001TX00Yes
05/31/2000TX00Yes