CRUSTERS 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 3.7% (24-mo)27 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 17.5% (24-mo)40 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

23.1% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 7.0 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
4.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
5
Inspections · 24 mo
40
Annualized
20 / yr
Coverage
4.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

88%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
41%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
82%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
17%
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 Driving19
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance14
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance10
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness8 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.201 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.30 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/02/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 9 total · 3 in 24 mo

9
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20251010
20232012
20222012
20212022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/13/2026MD00Yes
02/05/2026PA01Yes
09/03/2025NY01No
11/13/2023NJ00Yes
08/08/2023NY01Yes
10/06/2022NY00Yes
07/20/2022NY02Yes
10/19/2021NY04Yes
01/19/2021NJ01Yes