Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 81376

R E WATSON INC

HAMILTON, OH 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 33.3%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 — 3 vehicle and 10 driver inspections over 24 months.

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
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 74-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
74
Inspections · 24 mo
10
Annualized
≈5 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
.04measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
5measure
SMS · 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 Driving2
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 13 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 42 total · 5 in 24 mo

42
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
23
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263013
20252102
20241011
20231011
20212012
20202002
20191011
20181001
20173033
20161001
20152022
20144024
20121001
20101001
20091010
20082012
20073023
20062011
20041011
20031010
20013022
19991010
19961001
19951011
19931001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/23/2026OH02Yes
06/02/2026OH00Yes
04/30/2026OH00Yes
08/13/2025OH10Yes
07/17/2025OH00Yes
07/05/2024OH03Yes
08/10/2023OH02Yes
10/28/2021OH00Yes
06/16/2021OH01Yes
09/12/2020OH00Yes
06/15/2020OH00Yes
07/24/2019IN01Yes
10/18/2018OH00Yes
12/08/2017OH01Yes
07/25/2017OH01Yes
07/25/2017OH01Yes
02/23/2016OH00Yes
09/02/2015OH01Yes
08/03/2015OH01Yes
12/17/2014OH02Yes
11/17/2014OH01Yes
05/15/2014OH00Yes
02/15/2014OH00Yes
11/28/2012OH00Yes
01/06/2010OH00Yes