Carrier profile · USDOT 492309 · MC-272595 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Scranton Craftsmen Inc

15 power unitsavg 8.6 yrLocal · 1 statesTHROOP, PA70/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-272595 INACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksscrantoncraftsmen.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 50.0%24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 7.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 2 vehicle and 13 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 2

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 15-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
15
Inspections · 24 mo
13
Annualized
≈7 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

39%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
59%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
7measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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 Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 14 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 18 total · 1 in 24 mo

18
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20171010
20121011
20101001
20081010
20061001
20051001
20042011
20032002
20022011
20012021
20001011
19982012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 25, 2026PA00Yes
Oct 23, 2017PA01No
Apr 30, 2012PA01Yes
Jun 14, 2010PA00Yes
Jan 23, 2008NY02No
Dec 13, 2006PA00Yes
Jan 21, 2005NY00Yes
Oct 7, 2004PA01No
Aug 31, 2004PA00Yes
Jan 20, 2003PA00Yes
Jan 2, 2003PA00Yes
Aug 30, 2002IL00Yes
Aug 12, 2002NJ01No
Oct 16, 2001PA01No
Oct 12, 2001OH01Yes
Oct 17, 2000PA01Yes
Jul 20, 1998PA00Yes
Apr 23, 1998PA01Yes