Carrier profile · USDOT 2353286 · MC-805811 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Ruffin Trucking LLC

18 power unitsavg 6.6 yrRegional · 5 statesENNIS, TX66/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-805811 ACTIVE
Verified linksruffintruckingllc.comFMCSA SAFER

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 27.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 13.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 29 vehicle and 38 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 4.9 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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

38 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 4

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 18-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
18
Inspections · 24 mo
38
Annualized
≈19 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

16%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
78%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
73%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
66%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
61%
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 Driving13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 12 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.205 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

29 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 2, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

17ELD device issues
7No log / no ELD
2False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 59% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 21 total · 3 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253023
20243003
20222002
20212012
20203013
20195005
20181001
20171011
20121011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 11, 2025TX01Yes
Jun 4, 2025TX00Yes
Jan 10, 2025TX01Yes
May 12, 2024TX00Yes
Feb 20, 2024KS00Yes
Jan 22, 2024TX00Yes
Jun 2, 2022KS00Yes
Jan 15, 2022KS00Yes
Apr 20, 2021TX01Yes
Feb 10, 2021OK00Yes
Sep 25, 2020TX00Yes
Sep 1, 2020TX01Yes
Jul 19, 2020TX00Yes
Nov 20, 2019TX00Yes
Oct 10, 2019TX00Yes
Mar 8, 2019TX00Yes
Feb 28, 2019MO00Yes
Feb 1, 2019TX00Yes
Sep 28, 2018TX00Yes
Mar 17, 2017AR01Yes
Dec 7, 2012TX01Yes