Carrier profile · USDOT 3117697 · MC-86215 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Ferraro Foods Transport Corp

213 power unitsavg 6.5 yrNational · 17 statesPISCATAWAY, NJ88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-86215 ACTIVE
Verified linksferrarofoods.comFMCSA SAFER

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 8.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 171 vehicle and 297 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

2.8% · 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 9.6 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

284 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 20

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 213-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
213
Inspections · 24 mo
297
Annualized
≈149 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

27%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
14%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
69%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
38%
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 Driving176 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance72 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance30 · 18 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance25 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance23 · 5 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance20 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance13 · 8 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness10 · 10 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

29 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 8, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

22ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 77% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 97 total · 21 in 24 mo

97
Total crashes
21
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
32
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20266016
20259138
20246025
2023170415
2022210819
2021120212
2020130711
20199138
20184024
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 9, 2026MD00Yes
Apr 6, 2026NY00Yes
Apr 2, 2026CT00Yes
Mar 30, 2026NC00Yes
Mar 13, 2026FL00Yes
Mar 5, 2026PA02Yes
Dec 3, 2025PA01Yes
Dec 1, 2025VA00Yes
Sep 24, 2025PA01Yes
Aug 18, 2025MD01No
May 26, 2025MD10Yes
Apr 1, 2025WV00Yes
Feb 19, 2025CT00Yes
Jan 27, 2025CT00Yes
Jan 22, 2025CT00Yes
Dec 12, 2024NJ00Yes
Dec 4, 2024NY02No
Nov 1, 2024VA00Yes
Oct 1, 2024PA00Yes
Sep 26, 2024NJ00Yes
Aug 23, 2024MD01Yes
Dec 14, 2023MD00Yes
Nov 30, 2023FL00Yes
Nov 21, 2023VA00Yes
Oct 27, 2023NJ00Yes