Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1067513

PARRISH DEDICATED SERVICES INC

FORT WAYNE, IN 74

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 34.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 35 vehicle and 79 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

36.4% · 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 42.1 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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 66-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
66
Inspections · 24 mo
79
Annualized
≈40 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

53%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
18%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
48%
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 Driving37
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 8 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance7
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 396.7 Unsafe operationVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 01/08/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 89% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 73 total · 12 in 24 mo

73
Total crashes
12
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
18
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20257117
20245025
20234024
20225025
20215005
20204014
20197017
20183013
20176025
20163003
20155025
20143013
20132012
20122002
20113013
20101001
20092002
20071001
20062012
20031001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/25/2026OH00Yes
02/03/2026TN00Yes
12/08/2025OH00Yes
12/02/2025OH00Yes
11/12/2025IN12Yes
10/03/2025IN00Yes
09/28/2025MO00Yes
03/26/2025IN00Yes
02/11/2025IN00Yes
10/31/2024TN00Yes
08/29/2024OH00Yes
08/05/2024NY01Yes
05/02/2024NY01Yes
02/01/2024IN00Yes
10/15/2023OH01Yes
07/09/2023IN00Yes
03/17/2023IN02Yes
02/01/2023IN00Yes
12/13/2022MA01Yes
08/18/2022WI00Yes
06/28/2022IN02Yes
05/11/2022IN00Yes
04/28/2022MA00Yes
12/22/2021KY00Yes
09/17/2021IN00Yes