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EMPIRE CARGO LLC 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 36.6% (24-mo)71 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.2% (24-mo)116 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

26.7% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 11.9 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
≈3.7 / 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
16
Inspections · 24 mo
118
Annualized
≈59 / yr
Coverage
≈3.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

94%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
99%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
11%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0measure
SMS · per-BASIC
92%
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 Driving44
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance41 · 10 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance37 · 11 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance30 · 7 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance24 · 14 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance20 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance20
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance16 · 12 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance14
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance13

ELD & hours-of-service

86 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/02/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

38ELD device issues
11No log / no ELD
25False logs
10Drove over hours

Trending worse — 84% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 7 total · 5 in 24 mo

7
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
0
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261101
20252002
20244004
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/20/2026WA10Yes
12/10/2025WY00Yes
08/05/2025WA00Yes
11/13/2024WY00Yes
11/04/2024UT00Yes
07/15/2024CO00Yes
03/02/2024OR00Yes