Carrier profile · USDOT 104269 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Joseph T Ryerson & Son Inc

128 power unitsavg 4.6 yrNational · 20 statesCHICAGO, IL81/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY
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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 25.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 62 vehicle and 142 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

42.9% · 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 8.2 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

137 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 11

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
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 128-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
128
Inspections · 24 mo
142
Annualized
≈71 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

37%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
58%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.05measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
49%
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 Driving59 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance21 · 9 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance21 · 17 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance13 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 7 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance10 · 1 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance7 · 7 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

22 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Feb 25, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

7ELD device issues
6No log / no ELD
2False logs
1Drove over hours

3 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 160 total · 5 in 24 mo

160
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
78
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252122
20242002
20236025
20224004
20215005
20206016
20198048
20189059
20175015
20164024
20155025
20148058
20137037
20129028
20114023
20107076
20096046
20086055
20078246
20062012
20043013
20022012
20011011
19994034
19982002
19976026
19964024
19954024
19946045
19937066
19924023
19913022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 14, 2026SC00Yes
May 23, 2025IA01Yes
May 9, 2025OK21Yes
Dec 4, 2024WI00Yes
Oct 28, 2024FL00Yes
Dec 18, 2023MD01No
Sep 26, 2023MS00Yes
Aug 28, 2023GA00Yes
Aug 25, 2023OK00Yes
May 25, 2023TN01Yes
Jan 23, 2023VA00Yes
Nov 21, 2022FL00Yes
Oct 31, 2022AR00Yes
Jul 25, 2022GA00Yes
May 11, 2022FL00Yes
Oct 25, 2021FL00Yes
Aug 5, 2021FL00Yes
Jul 28, 2021GA00Yes
May 4, 2021NC00Yes
Apr 22, 2021FL00Yes
Oct 28, 2020UT00Yes
Jul 27, 2020AZ01Yes
Jun 9, 2020GA00Yes
Mar 20, 2020DE00Yes
Mar 4, 2020TN00Yes