Carrier profile · USDOT 2393885 · MC-822963 · Updated Aug 7, 2026

J & a & Sons Trucking Inc

34 power unitsavg 6.6 yrNational · 35 statesGARY, IN87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-822963 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 22.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 40 vehicle and 86 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 4.9 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

86 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '26 · 9

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 34-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
34
Inspections · 24 mo
86
Annualized
≈43 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

93%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
87%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
45%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
33%
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 Driving40 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance18 · 3 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance12 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 7 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

44 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
13False logs
11Drove over hours

Trending worse — 88% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 10 total · 4 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263013
20243003
20232002
20202012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 15, 2026FL00Yes
Mar 16, 2026PA00Yes
Feb 14, 2026NC02Yes
Nov 13, 2024AL00Yes
Aug 15, 2024IN00Yes
Jul 29, 2024MI00Yes
Aug 24, 2023NC00Yes
Jun 30, 2023IN00Yes
Sep 10, 2020IL00Yes
Jan 7, 2020PA01Yes