Carrier profile · USDOT 366921 · MC-246199 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

RUSTY'S TOWING SERVICE INC

79 power unitsavg 11.2 yrMulti-region · 8 statesCOLUMBUS, OH82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-246199 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 11.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 13.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 9 vehicle and 22 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 31.3 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

20 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 6

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 79-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
79
Inspections · 24 mo
22
Annualized
≈11 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

30%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
37%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
75%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
19%
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 Driving16 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.130 Cargo securement — heavy vehicles/equipmentVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.205 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.80 Rear-vision mirrorsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Feb 11, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 37 total · 4 in 24 mo

37
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261010
20252012
20242002
20231001
20223012
20211001
20202002
20191001
20182012
20176025
20161001
20151001
20141001
20122012
20112002
20104004
20091010
20061001
20031010
20021001
19991010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 2, 2026OH01No
Sep 25, 2025OH02Yes
Jan 31, 2025OH00Yes
Dec 12, 2024OH00Yes
Mar 13, 2024OH00Yes
Sep 19, 2023OH00Yes
Aug 29, 2022OH00Yes
Mar 8, 2022OH00Yes
Mar 3, 2022OH01No
May 28, 2021OH00Yes
Aug 28, 2020OH00Yes
Apr 8, 2020OH00Yes
Nov 11, 2019OH00Yes
Nov 23, 2018OH018Yes
Jun 3, 2018OH00Yes
Dec 28, 2017OH01No
Nov 14, 2017OH01Yes
Oct 25, 2017OH00Yes
Jul 5, 2017OH00Yes
Jun 22, 2017OH00Yes
Jan 10, 2017OH00Yes
May 17, 2016OH00Yes
Jun 3, 2015OH00Yes
Feb 13, 2014OH00Yes
Oct 31, 2012OH01Yes