Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 290521

RIVERSIDE CONTRACTING INC

MISSOULA, MT 81

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 22.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 31 vehicle and 50 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

36.4% · 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 6.7 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 130-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
130
Inspections · 24 mo
50
Annualized
≈25 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
15%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
57%
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 Driving10
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 4 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 7 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.205 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.203 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

4 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/21/2024. 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
2Drove over hours

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 34 total · 2 in 24 mo

34
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
4
Fatal
15
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20241001
20233013
20223113
20211001
20201011
20182012
20152122
20142002
20131011
20115115
20101100
20091011
20082022
20062022
20013003
19902011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/18/2026MT01Yes
04/22/2026MT00Yes
06/10/2024MT00Yes
07/18/2023MT00Yes
05/12/2023MT04Yes
05/08/2023MT00Yes
08/03/2022MT00Yes
07/28/2022MT00Yes
07/27/2022MT11Yes
07/12/2021MT00Yes
06/22/2020MT01Yes
05/30/2018MT01Yes
02/15/2018MT00Yes
10/08/2015WY01Yes
09/12/2015MT32Yes
11/03/2014MT00Yes
06/24/2014MT00Yes
09/12/2013MT01Yes
08/15/2011MT00Yes
08/09/2011MT10Yes
08/02/2011WY00Yes
07/24/2011MT01Yes
07/10/2011MT00Yes
08/05/2010MT10No
08/15/2009MT01Yes