HEAT WAVES HOT OIL SERVICE LLC 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 15.2% (24-mo)33 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)33 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

10.0% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 19.8 pts across the window — latest 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
0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 57-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
57
Inspections · 24 mo
33
Annualized
17 / yr
Coverage
0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
4%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
63%
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 Driving11
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 3 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance3
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 11/04/2024. 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 — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 15 total · 0 in 24 mo

15
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20231001
20211001
20201001
20191011
20171011
20151011
20141011
20121001
20103003
20061001
20051011
20021011
20011001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/16/2023TX00Yes
06/23/2021ND00Yes
01/22/2020PA00Yes
11/19/2019TX01Yes
12/16/2017TX01Yes
02/22/2015WV01Yes
09/17/2014KS01Yes
09/06/2012KS00Yes
12/31/2010CO00Yes
01/16/2010KS00Yes
01/06/2010CO00Yes
12/18/2006CO00Yes
08/01/2005KS01Yes
02/01/2002KS02Yes
08/10/2001KS00Yes