Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 565162

POWERSOURCE TRANSPORTATION INC

PORTAGE, IN 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 15.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 184 vehicle and 320 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

13.6% · 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.

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
1.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 104-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
104
Inspections · 24 mo
320
Annualized
160 / yr
Coverage
1.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

69%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
58%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
7%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
55%
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 Driving88
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance43 · 7 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance42 · 8 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance27
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance27 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance24 · 22 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance21 · 17 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance18
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance17 · 4 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance16

ELD & hours-of-service

74 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/10/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

37ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
25False logs
6Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 174 total · 16 in 24 mo

174
Total crashes
16
In last 24 mo
4
Fatal
68
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264014
202510078
20246036
20237037
20225015
20214013
20203003
20197017
20186116
2017100110
20162012
20157017
20141001
20139029
20129048
20114024
20102012
20098058
20087036
20079048
20068217
20055035
20045025
20037065
20026036
20013003
20005044
19993003
19985025
19973023
19964134
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/24/2026CA00Yes
04/21/2026VA04Yes
04/12/2026FL00Yes
02/18/2026GA00Yes
12/02/2025MO01Yes
11/17/2025NY00Yes
10/16/2025OK01No
10/16/2025OH01Yes
09/29/2025IA00Yes
07/12/2025CA01Yes
05/30/2025TX00Yes
05/20/2025KY01Yes
03/29/2025OK01Yes
03/25/2025NC01No
11/25/2024PA03Yes
10/29/2024WY00Yes
06/20/2024VA01Yes
06/10/2024MI01Yes
05/21/2024TN00Yes
01/29/2024KY00Yes
10/27/2023OH00Yes
09/06/2023PA01Yes
08/09/2023MO01Yes
07/31/2023NY00Yes
06/20/2023NE01Yes