Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2446029

RUSH INTERMODAL INC

HEBER CITY, UT 74

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 35.3%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 — 34 vehicle and 68 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

50.0% · 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 16.4 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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.

Expected band

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.6 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 57-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 57
Inspections · 24 mo: 68
Annualized: ≈34 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

49%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

55%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

84%

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 Driving67
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance37 · 16 OOS
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance26 · 6 OOS
393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance12 · 1 OOS
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 11 OOS
393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance12
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 4 OOS
395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance7
393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance6

ELD & hours-of-service

18 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/06/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues

0No log / no ELD

6False logs

7Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 20 total · 3 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026	1	0	0	1
2025	2	0	0	2
2023	2	0	0	2
2022	4	1	1	4
2021	2	0	0	2
2020	1	0	0	1
2019	2	0	1	2
2018	2	0	0	2
2017	3	0	2	2
2016	1	0	1	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
05/19/2026	IL	0	0	Yes
11/04/2025	IL	0	0	Yes
06/10/2025	IL	0	0	Yes
07/10/2023	IL	0	0	Yes
02/16/2023	WI	0	0	Yes
12/28/2022	IL	0	0	Yes
11/22/2022	IN	1	1	Yes
09/19/2022	IL	0	0	Yes
03/28/2022	IL	0	0	Yes
10/20/2021	IL	0	0	Yes
03/24/2021	IL	0	0	Yes
01/10/2020	IL	0	0	Yes
11/21/2019	IL	0	1	Yes
04/04/2019	IN	0	0	Yes
09/13/2018	WI	0	0	Yes
09/02/2018	IL	0	0	Yes
09/12/2017	MI	0	1	Yes
06/30/2017	IL	0	0	Yes
02/24/2017	IN	0	1	No
12/06/2016	WI	0	1	Yes