Carrier profile · USDOT 637697 · MC-1523248 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Kept Companies Inc

475 power unitsavg 8 yrNational · 21 statesFAIRFIELD, NJ82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1523248 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY

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 11.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 10.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 52 vehicle and 65 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 8.3 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

57 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 5

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 475-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
475
Inspections · 24 mo
65
Annualized
33 / yr
Coverage
0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

7%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
53%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
86%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
39%
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 Driving64 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance23 · 7 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 2 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 391.15 Driver qualificationsDriver Fitness3 · 2 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness2 · 1 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 24, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 70 total · 6 in 24 mo

70
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
28
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264132
20251001
20244034
20233013
20223023
20215015
20205025
20197017
20183023
20172012
20162002
20152002
20141010
20131011
20122002
20113013
20103013
20094004
20084023
20064034
20051011
20042112
20022102
20011011
19971001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 15, 2026CA00Yes
May 13, 2026NJ01No
May 13, 2026NJ01No
Mar 24, 2026TX22Yes
Aug 11, 2025WI00Yes
Dec 29, 2024CA00Yes
Jul 13, 2024CA02Yes
Jun 6, 2024IL01Yes
Apr 26, 2024FL01Yes
Dec 18, 2023CA00Yes
Jul 20, 2023FL00Yes
Jun 20, 2023GA01Yes
Nov 14, 2022TX01Yes
Jul 29, 2022CA01Yes
Mar 12, 2022KY00Yes
Dec 14, 2021CT00Yes
Jun 7, 2021MN00Yes
Jun 6, 2021TN00Yes
Apr 12, 2021CA00Yes
Feb 16, 2021FL02Yes
Nov 11, 2020FL00Yes
Sep 22, 2020NY01Yes
Aug 24, 2020CA00Yes
Feb 20, 2020CA00Yes
Jan 16, 2020OK01Yes