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DEAN'S BULK SERVICE 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 8.5% (24-mo)47 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 2.9% (24-mo)70 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▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 8.8 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.

Well-monitored

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.9 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Within the expected band for a 38-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.

Registered power units: 38
Inspections · 24 mo: 70
Annualized: ≈35 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

35%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

27%

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 Driving37
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9
393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance3
393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance3
393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance3
393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 02/04/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

3ELD device issues

4No log / no ELD

0False logs

0Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 8 total · 2 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026	1	0	1	0
2025	1	0	0	1
2023	1	1	1	1
2019	1	0	0	1
2012	1	0	0	1
2006	2	0	2	1
2002	1	0	1	0

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
05/08/2026	MN	0	1	No
08/28/2025	ND	0	0	Yes
06/14/2023	ND	1	1	Yes
06/03/2019	ND	0	0	Yes
09/17/2012	ND	0	0	Yes
10/02/2006	MN	0	1	Yes
01/23/2006	ND	0	1	No
05/03/2002	ND	0	1	No