Carrier profile · USDOT 751735 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Colony Hardware Corporation

DBA COLONY HARDWARE

256 power unitsavg 4.9 yrNational · 23 statesORANGE, CT94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkscolonyhardware.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 8.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 123 vehicle and 192 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

13.8% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

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

186 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '25 · 14

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 256-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
256
Inspections · 24 mo
192
Annualized
≈96 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

39%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
70%
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.

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 Driving64 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance31 · 4 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance19 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness11 · 5 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 6 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Nov 10, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

2 ELD violations in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 33 total · 7 in 24 mo

33
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
15
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20253013
20244024
20232012
20225024
20211011
20203003
20192011
20183033
20173003
20151011
20092002
20081011
20051001
20041010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 8, 2026MI01Yes
Nov 11, 2025MI00Yes
Feb 6, 2025TN01Yes
Jan 9, 2025OH00Yes
Nov 26, 2024PA00Yes
Sep 24, 2024NY03Yes
Aug 22, 2024OH02Yes
Jun 24, 2024TX00Yes
Dec 5, 2023TX00Yes
Jun 14, 2023MA01Yes
Oct 27, 2022IL00Yes
Oct 12, 2022MI00Yes
Sep 15, 2022NY00Yes
Aug 10, 2022FL01Yes
Apr 6, 2022NY01No
Oct 1, 2021PA01Yes
Dec 10, 2020TX00Yes
Apr 2, 2020NY00Yes
Mar 11, 2020NY00Yes
Oct 4, 2019MA00Yes
Jul 8, 2019OH01No
Aug 14, 2018NY02Yes
Jan 16, 2018NY02Yes
Jan 5, 2018CT01Yes
Dec 21, 2017OH00Yes