Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 863421

E R CARPENTER LP

TEMPLE, TX 94

Safety

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· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 13.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 15 vehicle and 22 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

28.6% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 2.5 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 40-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
40
Inspections · 24 mo
22
Annualized
≈11 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
25%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
52%
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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 37 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 21 total · 1 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20222002
20215035
20182002
20173012
20161001
20143013
20121011
20111001
20101001
20061001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/09/2026TX00Yes
12/19/2022TX00Yes
02/11/2022TX00Yes
10/19/2021TX00Yes
08/02/2021TX02Yes
07/16/2021TX01Yes
06/25/2021TX00Yes
06/10/2021TX01Yes
10/22/2018TX00Yes
01/23/2018CO00Yes
09/06/2017AZ00Yes
06/28/2017TX01No
06/16/2017OK00Yes
01/07/2016TX00Yes
08/29/2014TX00Yes
08/22/2014TX00Yes
08/19/2014TX01Yes
01/24/2012NC01Yes
03/11/2011TX00Yes
09/23/2010TX00Yes
05/09/2006TX00Yes