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DW FREIGHT 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.

Active federal out-of-service order — do not tender

Denial of Access · ordered 04/29/2026

FMCSA has ordered this carrier to cease operations. Verify current status with FMCSA before any tender.

Out-of-service rate· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 30.0% (24-mo)20 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 36.1% (24-mo)36 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

54.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 41.9 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
≈18.0 / 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
1
Inspections · 24 mo
36
Annualized
≈18 / yr
Coverage
≈18.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

99%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
99%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
85%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
83%
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 Driving33
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance32 · 9 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance20
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance17 · 4 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance11
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance8
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving6
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 4 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

74 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/25/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

22ELD device issues
11No log / no ELD
7False logs
17Drove over hours

Trending worse — 73% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.