Carrier profile · USDOT 504283 · MC-1629765 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Kevin Downes Tree Service Company Inc

DBA DOWNES TREE SERVICE

106 power unitsavg 8.2 yrLocal · 2 statesHAWTHORNE, NJ68/100
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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 38.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 17.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 13 vehicle and 17 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

57.1% · 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 26.2 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

17 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 2

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 106-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
106
Inspections · 24 mo
17
Annualized
≈9 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
.03measure
SMS · per-BASIC
19%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
82%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
85%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 2 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness4 · 3 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 392.8 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Apr 7, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 19 total · 2 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20251011
20241001
20231011
20222002
20162012
20152012
20111001
20102012
20091001
20043033
20031001
20011011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 22, 2026NJ01Yes
May 24, 2025NJ01Yes
Mar 4, 2024NJ00Yes
Jan 23, 2023NJ01Yes
Mar 18, 2022IA00Yes
Jan 28, 2022NJ00Yes
Sep 26, 2016NY00Yes
Jul 27, 2016NJ01Yes
Sep 23, 2015NJ01Yes
May 12, 2015NJ00Yes
Jul 9, 2011NJ00Yes
Dec 10, 2010NJ01Yes
Jul 24, 2010PA00Yes
Jul 2, 2009NJ00Yes
Oct 8, 2004NJ01Yes
May 1, 2004NJ01Yes
Mar 4, 2004NJ01Yes
Jun 10, 2003NJ00Yes
Jun 30, 2001NJ01Yes