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EMPIRE AUTO TRANSPORTATION GROUP 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 12.8% (24-mo)39 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 10.3% (24-mo)58 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

19.0% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 21.7 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.7 / 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
17
Inspections · 24 mo
58
Annualized
≈29 / yr
Coverage
≈1.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

44%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
53%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
40%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
33%
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 Driving38
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance13 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness5 · 5 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance5
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance5
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance4
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness3 · 2 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

23 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 09/24/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

10ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
4False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 15 total · 3 in 24 mo

15
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261010
20242012
20231001
20222022
20201001
20171001
20162002
20111001
20081001
20072101
20061011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/03/2026PA01No
09/11/2024MD00Yes
08/18/2024VA01Yes
03/10/2023GA00Yes
04/18/2022GA01Yes
03/01/2022GA01Yes
06/12/2020IL00Yes
01/26/2017PA00Yes
10/11/2016FL00Yes
02/11/2016NY00Yes
07/01/2011IL00Yes
04/12/2008IL00Yes
07/05/2007IL00Yes
04/12/2007PA10No
11/10/2006NY01Yes