COWIN EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC 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 4.5% (24-mo)22 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)52 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

7.1% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 8.6 pts across the window — latest under 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 155-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
155
Inspections · 24 mo
52
Annualized
26 / yr
Coverage
0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

26%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
6%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
2%
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 Driving12
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 3 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4
  • 393.130 Cargo securement — heavy vehicles/equipmentVehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

4 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/15/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 31 total · 6 in 24 mo

31
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254014
20241001
20232002
20222012
20212011
20201011
20173033
20162112
20151001
20142012
20132022
20111011
20061001
20031010
20021011
19991011
19981001
19941001
19931010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/16/2026AL00Yes
12/17/2025AL00Yes
10/18/2025GA00Yes
06/13/2025AL01Yes
04/08/2025GA00Yes
12/06/2024AL00Yes
07/18/2023GA00Yes
04/24/2023AL00Yes
08/30/2022AL00Yes
04/04/2022AL01Yes
12/13/2021AL01No
03/17/2021AL00Yes
08/25/2020AL01Yes
11/15/2017AL02Yes
11/14/2017AL04Yes
03/21/2017AL01Yes
12/07/2016AL12Yes
06/10/2016AL00Yes
09/04/2015AL00Yes
04/18/2014AL01Yes
04/12/2014AL00Yes
10/18/2013AL01Yes
03/18/2013GA01Yes
09/12/2011LA04Yes
03/27/2006AL00Yes