Carrier profile · USDOT 45262 · MC-117814 · Updated Aug 4, 2026

James H Clark & Son Inc

61 power unitsavg 2.3 yrNational · 24 statesSYRACUSE, UT70/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-117814 INACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksjameshclark.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 16.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 48 vehicle and 142 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

10.0% · 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 6.2 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

133 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '25 · 12

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
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 61-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
61
Inspections · 24 mo
142
Annualized
≈71 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

59%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
20%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
51%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
12%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
27%
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 Driving51 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 11 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

12 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 12, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

6ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
5False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 199 total · 7 in 24 mo

199
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
8
Fatal
80
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254114
20245035
20232012
20222021
20213013
20202012
20192002
20181001
20175015
20166026
20153132
20146016
20134004
20125015
20118048
20105005
20099138
200813059
20074014
20066006
20054114
200411148
20031901218
20025005
20012012
2000122610
19996046
19985023
19975034
19966026
19959159
19949058
19932012
19922000
19911011
19895035
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 15, 2026WI00Yes
Sep 24, 2025NE00Yes
Jun 17, 2025KY02Yes
May 20, 2025TX00Yes
Feb 14, 2025WY10Yes
Sep 27, 2024WA01Yes
Sep 3, 2024AR01Yes
May 10, 2024IN00Yes
Apr 28, 2024NE01Yes
Feb 19, 2024WY00Yes
Aug 3, 2023NV00Yes
Feb 8, 2023TX01Yes
Dec 8, 2022NE02Yes
Aug 14, 2022OR01No
Dec 10, 2021CO00Yes
Aug 16, 2021UT00Yes
Jun 17, 2021CA01Yes
May 24, 2020IA00Yes
Mar 14, 2020TX01Yes
Sep 22, 2019NV00Yes
Jul 11, 2019WY00Yes
Mar 7, 2018CA00Yes
Dec 17, 2017MO00Yes
Sep 11, 2017UT00Yes
Jul 27, 2017MD00Yes