Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 401278

PERFORMANCE FREIGHT SYSTEMS INC

MILWAUKEE, WI 88

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 12.5%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 — 16 vehicle and 31 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 18.1 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 19-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
19
Inspections · 24 mo
31
Annualized
16 / yr
Coverage
0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

42%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
60%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.01measure
SMS · 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 Driving20 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

1ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
3Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 58 total · 1 in 24 mo

58
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
17
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20241001
20221001
20212002
20202012
20192011
20184024
20172002
20162012
20151010
20143003
20131001
20113003
20101011
20092002
20083012
20074014
20064014
20053122
20041011
20031001
20021011
20011001
20001001
19992002
19983013
19972002
19963023
19891001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 9, 2026IN00Yes
May 16, 2024WI00Yes
Nov 11, 2022IL00Yes
Jul 15, 2021WI00Yes
Feb 1, 2021KY00Yes
Dec 11, 2020WI01Yes
Aug 25, 2020WI00Yes
Aug 19, 2019WI00Yes
Feb 25, 2019WI02No
Nov 15, 2018WI01Yes
Sep 7, 2018WI00Yes
May 2, 2018WI00Yes
Jan 5, 2018WI02Yes
Aug 23, 2017WI00Yes
Apr 5, 2017IL00Yes
Feb 19, 2016WI00Yes
Jan 11, 2016IL01Yes
Jan 19, 2015WI01No
Dec 30, 2014WI00Yes
Jun 16, 2014WI00Yes
Feb 6, 2014WI00Yes
Jul 5, 2013WI00Yes
Sep 27, 2011IL00Yes
Jul 25, 2011WI00Yes
May 20, 2011IL00Yes