DISTRIBUTION SOLUTIONS 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 11.1% (24-mo)108 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)237 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

9.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 2.4 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
0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 140-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
140
Inspections · 24 mo
237
Annualized
119 / yr
Coverage
0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

47%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
37%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
21%
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 Driving78
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance22
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 13 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance12
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance6
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

47 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 12/20/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

36ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
4False logs
6Drove over hours

Trending worse — 92% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 111 total · 14 in 24 mo

111
Total crashes
14
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
33
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264014
20257127
20246016
20234024
20225025
2021110511
20207027
20196016
2018111511
20175015
20163013
20157007
20145015
20135015
20127127
20115034
20105005
20091011
20071001
20062012
20051001
20043012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/10/2026TX01Yes
03/12/2026AZ00Yes
02/13/2026IL00Yes
01/09/2026MO00Yes
12/02/2025OK00Yes
10/04/2025AR13Yes
06/30/2025IL05Yes
05/28/2025MO00Yes
05/27/2025WY00Yes
05/12/2025AR00Yes
04/17/2025OH00Yes
10/01/2024NJ00Yes
09/25/2024IN00Yes
08/23/2024AR00Yes
06/29/2024GA00Yes
05/28/2024MO01Yes
01/18/2024MS00Yes
09/22/2023AR02Yes
08/16/2023OH00Yes
07/24/2023KY01Yes
07/06/2023AR00Yes
11/14/2022VA00Yes
08/16/2022IL00Yes
04/22/2022AR00Yes
02/07/2022KS01Yes