HCHUGHES COMPANIES INC 81

HUGHES COMPANIES 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 23.5% (24-mo)17 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 9.4% (24-mo)32 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

22.2% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 27.1 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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 23-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
23
Inspections · 24 mo
32
Annualized
≈16 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

53%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
76%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
92%
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 Maintenance25 · 2 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving18
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 6 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving3

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 43 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 6 total · 2 in 24 mo

6
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20241011
20231001
20191010
20181001
20161011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/01/2026AL00Yes
09/27/2024AL01Yes
09/13/2023AL00Yes
01/03/2019AL01No
06/14/2018AL00Yes
01/26/2016AL01Yes