JACOB TRANSPORT 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 14.3% (24-mo)49 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.1% (24-mo)88 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

4.3% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 1.6 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 45-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
45
Inspections · 24 mo
88
Annualized
44 / yr
Coverage
1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

47%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
53%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
29%
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 Driving21
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance10
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance9
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance8 · 3 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

25 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 12/23/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
9False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 63% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 11 total · 2 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261010
20241001
20231001
20222002
20211001
20201001
20181001
20141001
20111001
20071011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/19/2026TX01No
12/12/2024WA00Yes
01/27/2023SD00Yes
12/13/2022MT00Yes
04/07/2022NE00Yes
10/13/2021AR00Yes
08/16/2020WA00Yes
05/17/2018IA00Yes
01/02/2014KY00Yes
02/25/2011ID00Yes
01/20/2007NE02Yes