Carrier profile · USDOT 3141671 · MC-99639 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Gozal Incorporated

83 power unitsavg 3.5 yrNational · 27 statesHOOVEN, OH88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-99639 ACTIVE
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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 22.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 77 vehicle and 179 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

35.0% · 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 8.8 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

172 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '26 · 12

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 83-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
83
Inspections · 24 mo
179
Annualized
≈90 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

88%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
50%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
36%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
45%
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 Driving65 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance26 · 23 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance15 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance14 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance10 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance10 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

32 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 8, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

16ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
6False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 69% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 19 total · 7 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264014
20252002
20241001
20236006
20224004
20201111
20191001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 27, 2026NJ00Yes
Feb 15, 2026IN01Yes
Jan 13, 2026VA00Yes
Jan 1, 2026IN00Yes
Oct 19, 2025MO00Yes
Sep 22, 2025NC00Yes
Aug 26, 2024PA00Yes
Nov 29, 2023TN00Yes
Oct 29, 2023KY00Yes
Aug 23, 2023OH00Yes
Jul 26, 2023PA00Yes
Feb 16, 2023TN00Yes
Jan 4, 2023IN00Yes
Dec 27, 2022OH00Yes
Dec 15, 2022VA00Yes
Nov 1, 2022IN00Yes
Mar 11, 2022MO00Yes
Dec 15, 2020MI11Yes
Feb 25, 2019NJ00Yes