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DALTON TRUCKING 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 40.0% (24-mo)75 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.8% (24-mo)87 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

42.9% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 7.3 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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 64-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
64
Inspections · 24 mo
87
Annualized
≈44 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

17%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
20%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
9%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
30%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
89%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance47 · 7 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving34
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance27 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance23 · 11 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance16 · 8 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance15 · 1 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance11
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance10 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance10
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance8

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 09/17/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

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

Crash history· 16 total · 3 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252012
20241011
20212012
20201001
20182011
20172002
20152002
20131011
20112012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/14/2026TX00Yes
10/20/2025TX00Yes
08/06/2025TX01Yes
07/02/2024TX02Yes
05/11/2021TX01Yes
03/06/2021OK00Yes
09/29/2020TX00Yes
08/17/2018TX00Yes
08/14/2018TX01No
11/20/2017TX00Yes
07/18/2017TX00Yes
08/17/2015TX00Yes
03/24/2015TX00Yes
09/10/2013TX02Yes
10/03/2011TX01Yes
02/04/2011TX00Yes