OWEN INDUSTRIES 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 20.0% (24-mo)25 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.6% (24-mo)62 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

5.3% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 2.0 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
0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 33-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
33
Inspections · 24 mo
62
Annualized
31 / yr
Coverage
0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

40%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
23%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · 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 Driving18
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving6
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance3
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance3
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/19/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 8 total · 0 in 24 mo

8
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20191001
20161001
20152002
20141001
20131010
20091001
20041010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
11/27/2019SD00Yes
02/15/2016MN00Yes
12/07/2015NE00Yes
06/19/2015IA00Yes
08/20/2014NE00Yes
02/19/2013ND04No
06/26/2009NE00Yes
11/12/2004IA01No