COLUMBIA RIVER TRANSPORT 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 50.7% (24-mo)142 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.4% (24-mo)215 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

32.8% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 17.4 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
1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 98-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
98
Inspections · 24 mo
215
Annualized
108 / yr
Coverage
1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

61%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
98%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
82%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
90%
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 Driving162
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance72 · 12 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance65 · 17 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance58 · 46 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance48
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance44 · 13 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance32
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance29
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance28
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance27

ELD & hours-of-service

147 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/03/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

51ELD device issues
18No log / no ELD
54False logs
23Drove over hours

Trending worse — 86% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 13 total · 10 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20257017
20244014
20231001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/02/2026WA01Yes
12/02/2025NV01Yes
12/02/2025NV00Yes
03/21/2025MT00Yes
03/17/2025WA00Yes
02/10/2025ID00Yes
02/05/2025OR00Yes
01/13/2025OR00Yes
11/01/2024WA01Yes
08/27/2024WA00Yes
05/25/2024ID00Yes
04/25/2024ID00Yes
12/18/2023WA00Yes