RF LLC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 18.2% (24-mo)11 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 10.0% (24-mo)20 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

28.6% now● Stable

Holding near 28.6% — above the 22.26% national benchmark.

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 12-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
12
Inspections · 24 mo
20
Annualized
10 / yr
Coverage
0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

47%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
93%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
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 Driving14 · 1 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving12
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 5 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving6
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 02/07/2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 36 total · 1 in 24 mo

36
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
15
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20241011
20223013
20211011
20201011
20197037
20187137
20175015
20163013
20141001
20121011
20111101
20101011
20091001
20071001
20061011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/16/2026MO00Yes
06/27/2024MO03Yes
08/26/2022MO01Yes
01/26/2022MO00Yes
01/15/2022MO00Yes
11/24/2021IL01Yes
08/28/2020MO04Yes
12/31/2019IN00Yes
09/18/2019IL00Yes
07/18/2019IL00Yes
05/17/2019IL02Yes
05/11/2019IL03Yes
04/24/2019MO01Yes
02/11/2019MO00Yes
12/17/2018IL00Yes
08/20/2018MO11Yes
08/15/2018IL01Yes
06/26/2018MO00Yes
04/12/2018MO01Yes
03/27/2018MO00Yes
01/12/2018IL00Yes
12/02/2017MO00Yes
11/13/2017IL00Yes
10/07/2017MO01Yes
05/15/2017MO00Yes