GFL ENVIRONMENTAL 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 10.7% (24-mo)28 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)46 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

7.7% now● Stable

Holding near 7.7% — under 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 181-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
181
Inspections · 24 mo
46
Annualized
23 / yr
Coverage
0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

9%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
4%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
41%
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 Driving50
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance15 · 1 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 12 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance9
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 3 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance4
  • 387.7 Other violationOther3

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 08/22/2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 14 total · 4 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253003
20241001
20232002
20222012
20201001
20191001
20181001
20171001
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/11/2026GA00Yes
12/29/2025MI00Yes
10/30/2025MI00Yes
07/18/2025MI00Yes
01/23/2024MI00Yes
10/03/2023MI00Yes
06/13/2023MI00Yes
12/01/2022GA00Yes
07/13/2022MI01Yes
04/27/2020MI00Yes
08/14/2019MI00Yes
09/04/2018MN00Yes
02/07/2017MI00Yes
07/21/2015MI00Yes