Carrier profile · USDOT 260827 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Ernst Enterprises Inc

DBA ERNST READY MIX

342 power unitsLocal · 2 statesVANDALIA, OH88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY
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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 20.0%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 — 5 vehicle and 9 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 19.4 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

9 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 2

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 342-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
342
Inspections · 24 mo
9
Annualized
≈5 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
.02measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
14%
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 Driving5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 13 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 92 total · 9 in 24 mo

92
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
6
Fatal
39
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264004
20254023
20243003
20235045
20223023
20215015
20206124
20196136
20188038
20177106
20165032
20152012
20145034
20132002
20121011
20112011
20103013
20093022
20083003
20063123
20033121
20013133
20002011
19993022
19981001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 29, 2026OH00Yes
Apr 21, 2026OH00Yes
Mar 6, 2026KY00Yes
Feb 6, 2026OH00Yes
Aug 15, 2025OH00Yes
Jul 15, 2025OH00Yes
Apr 21, 2025OH01Yes
Feb 21, 2025OH01No
Nov 20, 2024OH00Yes
Jun 11, 2024OH00Yes
Mar 11, 2024OH00Yes
Nov 13, 2023OH00Yes
Oct 16, 2023IN01Yes
Aug 2, 2023OH01Yes
Jul 13, 2023OH01Yes
May 10, 2023KY01Yes
Nov 3, 2022OH01Yes
Oct 11, 2022OH00Yes
Jul 14, 2022OH01Yes
May 6, 2021OH00Yes
Mar 19, 2021OH00Yes
Mar 16, 2021OH00Yes
Jan 6, 2021OH01Yes
Jan 4, 2021OH00Yes
Nov 5, 2020OH01No