Continental Battery Company
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 rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing
Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay
437 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 47
Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal
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.
- Registered power units
- 419
- Inspections · 24 mo
- 443
- Annualized
- ≈222 / yr
- Coverage
- ≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr
BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026
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 Driving124 · 2 OOS
- 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance55 · 5 OOS
- 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance27 · 18 OOS
- 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance24 · 7 OOS
- 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance18 · 0 OOS
- 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving17 · 0 OOS
- 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
- 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
- 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance10 · 2 OOS
- 177.834 Other violationOther9 · 9 OOS
ELD & hours-of-service
40 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 21, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.
Trending worse — 58% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.
Crash history· 39 total · 8 in 24 mo
| Year | Crashes | Fatal | Injury | Tow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Date | State | Fatalities | Injuries | Tow-away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2026 | PA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jun 19, 2026 | OR | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Mar 24, 2026 | TX | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Mar 4, 2026 | OR | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Nov 11, 2025 | IL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jan 22, 2025 | OK | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Dec 27, 2024 | TX | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Sep 11, 2024 | TX | 1 | 0 | Yes |
| May 21, 2024 | CA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Apr 15, 2024 | NC | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jan 5, 2024 | IL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Oct 10, 2023 | NJ | 0 | 1 | No |
| Jan 23, 2023 | PA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Nov 2, 2022 | AL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Oct 1, 2021 | TX | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jan 5, 2021 | NC | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jan 22, 2020 | KS | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Dec 27, 2019 | KS | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jun 7, 2019 | SC | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Mar 5, 2019 | TX | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Nov 19, 2018 | NE | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Oct 1, 2018 | TX | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jul 11, 2018 | TX | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Feb 21, 2017 | TX | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jul 15, 2015 | TX | 0 | 0 | Yes |