DSDGA SERVICES 94

DGA SERVICES 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 17.6% (24-mo)216 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.7% (24-mo)283 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

13.6% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 7.4 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
≈1.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 95-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
95
Inspections · 24 mo
283
Annualized
≈142 / yr
Coverage
≈1.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

32%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
3%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
49%
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 Driving98
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance87 · 10 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance42 · 12 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance38 · 19 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance30
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance27 · 22 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance17 · 4 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance16
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving12
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 07/22/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 37 total · 5 in 24 mo

37
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252012
20243013
20233003
20225015
20211001
20204023
20192002
20183013
20171001
20162002
20153013
20141001
20131001
20101001
20071011
20041001
20001001
19991011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/20/2026CA00Yes
07/10/2025CA00Yes
02/26/2025CA01Yes
12/30/2024CA00Yes
10/15/2024CA01Yes
07/15/2024CA00Yes
06/15/2023CA00Yes
03/07/2023CA00Yes
02/02/2023CA00Yes
11/12/2022CA00Yes
10/22/2022CA00Yes
08/20/2022CA00Yes
05/10/2022CA00Yes
02/02/2022CA01Yes
12/18/2021CA00Yes
10/22/2020CA01Yes
10/14/2020CA01No
07/25/2020CA00Yes
01/07/2020CA00Yes
08/15/2019CA00Yes
03/04/2019CA00Yes
11/21/2018CA00Yes
08/16/2018CA00Yes
03/16/2018CA01Yes
10/24/2017CA00Yes