GOLD EAGLE TRANSPORTATION 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 55.6% (24-mo)45 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 18.5% (24-mo)65 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

61.9% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 26.2 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
1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 30-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
65
Annualized
33 / yr
Coverage
1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

39%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
90%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
11%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
91%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance42 · 6 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving35
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance35 · 15 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance21 · 12 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance19 · 15 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance19 · 8 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance12 · 4 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

38 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/16/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
25No log / no ELD
1False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 23 total · 3 in 24 mo

23
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252022
20242002
20233003
20223013
20212102
20201001
20192002
20182012
20173023
20161011
20141001
20131011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
09/25/2025NC01Yes
08/19/2025NY02Yes
09/26/2024MA00Yes
06/19/2024MD00Yes
07/24/2023FL00Yes
04/19/2023VA00Yes
03/13/2023FL00Yes
09/30/2022SC00Yes
07/21/2022NY03Yes
04/01/2022NJ00Yes
09/27/2021GA10Yes
04/07/2021MD00Yes
06/25/2020NJ00Yes
11/08/2019MD00Yes
09/13/2019FL00Yes
12/09/2018VA00Yes
12/03/2018NY01Yes
09/17/2017PA00Yes
08/06/2017MD01Yes
05/17/2017VA01Yes
12/30/2016FL01Yes
12/15/2014FL00Yes
02/28/2013FL05Yes