East Penn Manufacturing Co Inc
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 rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing
Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay
461 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '26 · 28
Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal
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.
- Registered power units
- 231
- Inspections · 24 mo
- 467
- Annualized
- ≈234 / yr
- Coverage
- ≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr
BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026
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 Driving69 · 0 OOS
- 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance24 · 16 OOS
- 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance13 · 1 OOS
- 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
- 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
- 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
- 177.834 Other violationOther7 · 7 OOS
- 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving7 · 0 OOS
- 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
- 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS
ELD & hours-of-service
15 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 26, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.
Trending worse — 60% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.
Crash history· 128 total · 6 in 24 mo
| Year | Crashes | Fatal | Injury | Tow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2017 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2012 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 11 | |
| 2011 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 8 | |
| 2010 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 8 | |
| 2009 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 8 | |
| 2008 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| 2007 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 9 | |
| 2006 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1997 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Date | State | Fatalities | Injuries | Tow-away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2026 | PA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Dec 3, 2025 | NM | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Oct 16, 2025 | MO | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Sep 24, 2025 | OH | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Sep 8, 2025 | NJ | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Apr 21, 2025 | CA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jul 2, 2024 | TN | 1 | 1 | Yes |
| Jul 1, 2024 | CA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Nov 16, 2023 | CA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| May 1, 2023 | NY | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Dec 28, 2022 | FL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Mar 21, 2022 | MA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jun 24, 2021 | GA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jun 22, 2020 | NJ | 0 | 2 | No |
| Apr 16, 2020 | CA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Sep 4, 2019 | VA | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Jul 1, 2019 | DE | 0 | 2 | Yes |
| Apr 22, 2019 | NJ | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Jan 31, 2019 | NV | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jan 16, 2019 | OH | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Feb 6, 2018 | IL | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Oct 4, 2017 | CA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Sep 8, 2017 | MD | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jul 24, 2017 | CA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| May 15, 2017 | NY | 0 | 1 | Yes |