RT LOGISTICS CORP 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 43.3% (24-mo)30 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 26.8% (24-mo)41 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

62.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 7.3 pts across the window — latest 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
1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 13-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
13
Inspections · 24 mo
41
Annualized
21 / yr
Coverage
1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

13%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
86%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
97%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0measure
SMS · per-BASIC
96%
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 Driving79 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance60 · 9 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance38
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance37
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance34 · 21 OOS
  • 396.9 Inspection of motor vehicles in operationVehicle Maintenance31
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance31 · 8 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance21
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance20
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving15

ELD & hours-of-service

13 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 10/20/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
7No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 7 total · 3 in 24 mo

7
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252022
20243033
20222200
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
09/25/2025NY03Yes
08/11/2025PA01Yes
09/17/2024NY03Yes
07/26/2024NJ01Yes
06/30/2024NY01Yes
09/05/2022NY10No
09/05/2022NY10No