RUBY TRANSPORT INC 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 34.0% (24-mo)150 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 15.2% (24-mo)283 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

51.0% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 27.0 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
2.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
54
Inspections · 24 mo
283
Annualized
142 / yr
Coverage
2.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

61%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
88%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
95%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
89%
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 Driving245
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance94 · 11 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness79 · 40 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance66 · 39 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance50 · 9 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance45
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance39
  • 395.32 ELD — non-authenticated drivingHOS Compliance35
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance35
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance34

ELD & hours-of-service

149 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/26/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

102ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
21False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 80% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 23 total · 6 in 24 mo

23
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20252012
20242011
20232012
20224014
20212012
20205025
20191001
20182012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/01/2026OK00Yes
03/21/2026TX00Yes
03/04/2026TX00Yes
08/14/2025AZ00Yes
08/08/2025TN01Yes
10/14/2024MS01No
05/07/2024TX00Yes
05/02/2023MD00Yes
03/10/2023CT01Yes
10/22/2022AR01Yes
09/11/2022MT00Yes
05/10/2022VA00Yes
01/22/2022TN00Yes
09/17/2021VA00Yes
08/28/2021TN01Yes
08/01/2020LA00Yes
07/02/2020WY02Yes
05/15/2020PA00Yes
02/06/2020MA00Yes
01/27/2020TX01Yes
03/06/2019TX00Yes
07/10/2018TX00Yes
05/12/2018MS01Yes