Carrier profile · USDOT 333471 · MC-1002070 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

ROBERT CHILDS INC

53 power unitsavg 18.3 yrRegional · 3 statesSOUTH DENNIS, MA73/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1002070 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT

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 16 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

16 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 3

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

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 53-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: 53
Inspections · 24 mo: 16
Annualized: ≈8 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

19%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

10%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

1.33measure

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 Driving10 · 0 OOS
391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 18 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 13 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2025	1	0	0	1
2024	1	0	1	1
2023	1	0	0	1
2022	1	0	1	1
2020	1	0	1	1
2018	2	0	1	2
2017	1	0	0	1
2015	2	0	2	2
2014	1	1	0	1
2011	2	0	1	2

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Jan 23, 2025	MA	0	0	Yes
Jan 17, 2024	MA	0	1	Yes
Oct 27, 2023	MA	0	0	Yes
Nov 8, 2022	MA	0	1	Yes
Oct 19, 2020	MA	0	1	Yes
Nov 13, 2018	MA	0	0	Yes
May 16, 2018	MA	0	1	Yes
Feb 8, 2017	MA	0	0	Yes
Oct 3, 2015	MA	0	1	Yes
Aug 13, 2015	MA	0	1	Yes
May 22, 2014	MA	1	0	Yes
Dec 8, 2011	MA	0	1	Yes
Feb 4, 2011	MA	0	0	Yes