Carrier profile · USDOT 1596498 · MC-653337 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

East of the Bay LLC

7 power unitsavg 6.4 yrRegional · 5 statesFEDERALSBURG, MD100/100

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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 22.2%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 5.6%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 9 vehicle and 18 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 31.7 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

18 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '26 · 3

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

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

≈1.3 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Within the expected band for a 7-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.

Registered power units: 7
Inspections · 24 mo: 18
Annualized: ≈9 / yr
Coverage: ≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

66%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

88%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

60%

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.

393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS
395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5 · 1 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 1 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 12, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues

0No log / no ELD

3False logs

5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 14 total · 0 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2024	3	0	1	3
2023	1	0	0	1
2021	1	0	1	1
2020	1	1	1	1
2019	1	0	1	1
2017	1	0	1	1
2016	2	0	1	2
2015	3	0	1	3
2014	1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Mar 8, 2024	NC	0	1	Yes
Feb 15, 2024	NC	0	0	Yes
Feb 15, 2024	NC	0	0	Yes
Mar 27, 2023	MD	0	0	Yes
Feb 11, 2021	MD	0	1	Yes
Nov 23, 2020	NC	1	1	Yes
Nov 25, 2019	DE	0	1	Yes
May 21, 2017	VA	0	1	Yes
May 9, 2016	MD	0	0	Yes
Jan 30, 2016	VA	0	2	Yes
Sep 22, 2015	PA	0	0	Yes
Sep 18, 2015	MD	0	1	Yes
Mar 11, 2015	VA	0	0	Yes
Aug 27, 2014	VA	0	0	Yes