Carrier profile · USDOT 2845440 · MC-954035 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Fil's Group LLC

DBA FILS AUTO CENTER

10 power unitsavg 5.7 yrNational · 32 statesPENSACOLA, FL80/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-954035 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 43.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 69 vehicle and 91 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

50.0% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 26.0 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

85 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 9

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈4.5 / 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
10
Inspections · 24 mo
91
Annualized
≈46 / yr
Coverage
≈4.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

95%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
78%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
84%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
58%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
70%
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 Driving60 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance38 · 7 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance37 · 4 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance20 · 4 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance16 · 16 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 8 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness14 · 13 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

54 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 22, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

32ELD device issues
7No log / no ELD
9False logs
3Drove over hours

13 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 4 total · 1 in 24 mo

4
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20241011
20172002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 11, 2026LA00Yes
Feb 28, 2024GA01Yes
Sep 13, 2017MA00Yes
Jul 14, 2017VA00Yes