FIRST CLASS AUTO 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 15.0% (24-mo)20 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 17.2% (24-mo)29 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

45.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 7.8 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 10-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
10
Inspections · 24 mo
29
Annualized
15 / yr
Coverage
1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

78%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
55%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
91%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
68%
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 Driving43
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance15
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance10
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving8
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance8
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 396.9 Inspection of motor vehicles in operationVehicle Maintenance7
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 2 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness4 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/22/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
4No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 3 total · 2 in 24 mo

3
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20241001
20231011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/07/2025NJ00Yes
10/04/2024NJ00Yes
06/26/2023PA01Yes