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SILVER KNIGHT INC Safety Record

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.

Active federal out-of-service order — do not tender

Denial of Access · ordered 11/19/2025

FMCSA has ordered this carrier to cease operations. Verify current status with FMCSA before any tender.

Out-of-service rate· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 72.7% (24-mo)11 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 38.1% (24-mo)21 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

69.2% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 45.1 pts across the window — latest above the 22.26% national benchmark.

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈3.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
3
Inspections · 24 mo
21
Annualized
≈11 / yr
Coverage
≈3.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

98%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
96%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
93%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
57%
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 Driving61 · 2 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance16 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance15 · 7 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9
  • 395.32 ELD — non-authenticated drivingHOS Compliance8
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving5 · 5 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving5
  • 396.9 Inspection of motor vehicles in operationVehicle Maintenance3
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving3
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance3

ELD & hours-of-service

49 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 09/09/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues
6No log / no ELD
8False logs
16Drove over hours

Trending worse — 56% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 1 total · 1 in 24 mo

1
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
0
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
12/19/2024OK00Yes