Carrier profile · USDOT 2718633 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Highway Specialty Company Inc

150 power unitsavg 9 yrLocal · 1 statesREDDING, CA74/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkshighwayspecialty.comFMCSA SAFER

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 34.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 116 vehicle and 102 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

42.9% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 17.0 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

130 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 14

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 150-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
150
Inspections · 24 mo
132
Annualized
≈66 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

30%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
75%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
92%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
77%
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 Driving86 · 7 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance65 · 16 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance23 · 19 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance16 · 10 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 11 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 5 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance8 · 4 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness8 · 8 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

15 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 6, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

7ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
2False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 86% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 16 total · 4 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253013
20243003
20232002
20222012
20211001
20201001
20192012
20182012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 16, 2025CA01Yes
Jul 24, 2025CA00Yes
Jul 14, 2025CA00Yes
Aug 25, 2024CA00Yes
Feb 29, 2024CA00Yes
Feb 29, 2024CA00Yes
Oct 25, 2023CA00Yes
Oct 7, 2023CA00Yes
Aug 11, 2022CA00Yes
Jul 28, 2022CA01Yes
Apr 5, 2021CA00Yes
Jul 13, 2020CA00Yes
Oct 2, 2019CA01Yes
Jan 9, 2019CA00Yes
Nov 9, 2018CA01Yes
Aug 29, 2018CA00Yes