Carrier profile · USDOT 2927239 · MC-987973 · Updated Aug 2, 2026

SAW TRANSIT LLC

135 power unitsavg 6.2 yrNational · 37 statesPANTEGO, TX81/100
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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 30.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 120 vehicle and 225 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

34.3% · 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 4.3 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

219 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 18

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 135-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
135
Inspections · 24 mo
225
Annualized
≈113 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

82%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
90%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
25%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
82%
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 Driving70 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance42 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance30 · 18 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance27 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance18 · 8 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance15 · 11 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

29ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
23False logs
7Drove over hours

Trending worse — 90% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 14 total · 10 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20255115
20246026
20211001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 24, 2026GA00Yes
Feb 14, 2026TX01Yes
Nov 21, 2025TX10Yes
Oct 29, 2025LA00Yes
Oct 7, 2025OH01Yes
Sep 9, 2025IL00Yes
Mar 17, 2025MA00Yes
Dec 27, 2024MO00Yes
Dec 19, 2024NC00Yes
Nov 26, 2024AR00Yes
Jul 15, 2024TX01Yes
Jun 30, 2024WI02Yes
Mar 18, 2024MI00Yes
Sep 13, 2021UT00Yes