Carrier profile · USDOT 2147799 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Pennsylvania - American Water Company

DBA PENNSYLVANIA AMERICAN WATER

238 power unitsavg 5.4 yrLocal · 1 statesMECHANICSBURG, PA94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linksamwater.comFMCSA SAFER

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 0.0%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 — 6 vehicle and 9 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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

8 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 1

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
≈0.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 238-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
238
Inspections · 24 mo
9
Annualized
≈5 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
.06measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
clean · per-BASIC

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 Driving3 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 15 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 19 total · 3 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252012
20245034
20222011
20212022
20203013
20191011
20181001
20161001
20131001
20111001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 4, 2025PA01Yes
Jan 3, 2025PA00Yes
Aug 19, 2024PA01Yes
Aug 15, 2024PA00Yes
Jun 28, 2024PA01No
Jun 17, 2024PA01Yes
May 1, 2024PA00Yes
Dec 20, 2022PA01No
Nov 14, 2022PA00Yes
Feb 20, 2021PA02Yes
Feb 3, 2021PA01Yes
Dec 16, 2020PA00Yes
Dec 2, 2020PA04Yes
Jul 16, 2020PA00Yes
Oct 3, 2019PA01Yes
Aug 8, 2018PA00Yes
Sep 29, 2016PA00Yes
May 31, 2013PA00Yes
Jun 1, 2011PA00Yes