ROOT NETWORK 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 13.3% (24-mo)75 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.9% (24-mo)103 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

13.0% now● Stable

Holding near 13.0% — under 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
1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 38-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
38
Inspections · 24 mo
103
Annualized
52 / yr
Coverage
1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

39%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
53%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
16%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
13%
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 Driving37
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance21 · 2 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving10
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 7 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 10/06/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 20 total · 6 in 24 mo

20
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253013
20243013
20236006
20222002
20211001
20204014
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/13/2026PA00Yes
12/09/2025MD00Yes
09/12/2025PA01Yes
05/23/2025PA00Yes
10/11/2024PA01Yes
08/23/2024NJ00Yes
05/21/2024PA00Yes
11/06/2023PA00Yes
10/25/2023PA00Yes
10/05/2023NJ00Yes
08/22/2023MD00Yes
02/28/2023NJ00Yes
02/21/2023NJ00Yes
11/11/2022PA00Yes
10/29/2022PA00Yes
06/07/2021PA00Yes
12/22/2020PA00Yes
12/21/2020NY00Yes
11/18/2020NY01Yes
06/09/2020PA00Yes