PAM INTERNATIONAL 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 20.9% (24-mo)268 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.2% (24-mo)662 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

8.4% now● Stable

Holding near 8.4% — 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
1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 236-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
236
Inspections · 24 mo
662
Annualized
331 / yr
Coverage
1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

88%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
30%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
57%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
45%
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 Driving243 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance77 · 70 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance41 · 11 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance38 · 10 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance26
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance21 · 14 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance20
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance20 · 2 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance16
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving14

ELD & hours-of-service

48 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/03/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

41ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
3False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 51% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 87 total · 35 in 24 mo

87
Total crashes
35
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
23
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
2026111311
2025150215
2024200420
202310059
2022150515
20218018
20202012
20194014
20182012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/05/2026OH00Yes
05/29/2026MS00Yes
05/07/2026GA12Yes
04/10/2026VA00Yes
04/09/2026MD00Yes
03/28/2026AL01Yes
03/19/2026KY00Yes
01/30/2026NC00Yes
01/22/2026KY00Yes
01/09/2026MS01Yes
01/08/2026IL00Yes
12/14/2025KS00Yes
10/15/2025AL00Yes
10/05/2025SC01Yes
10/05/2025AL00Yes
10/02/2025PA00Yes
09/30/2025GA00Yes
09/30/2025IN00Yes
09/23/2025GA00Yes
07/12/2025GA00Yes
07/05/2025TX00Yes
04/10/2025GA00Yes
03/21/2025OH00Yes
03/05/2025IL00Yes
03/02/2025GA04Yes