Carrier profile · USDOT 165438 · MC-1651533 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Sims Crane & Equipment Company

380 power unitsavg 8.1 yrRegional · 3 statesTAMPA, FL74/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1651533 ACTIVERATED UNSATISFACTORY
Verified linkssimscrane.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 34.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 32 vehicle and 72 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

41.7% · 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 37.3 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

71 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '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 380-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
380
Inspections · 24 mo
72
Annualized
≈36 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

2%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
9%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
35%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
71%
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 Driving25 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance25 · 9 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 4 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 172.519 Other violationOther1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 14, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 75 total · 7 in 24 mo

75
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
31
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253122
20245125
20233003
20226046
20214004
20204033
20198075
20185025
20177007
20165015
20156106
20141001
20133023
20111011
20101001
20091011
20081010
20074033
20062012
20051001
20022012
19971001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 9, 2026FL00Yes
Oct 26, 2025FL02Yes
Sep 18, 2025FL00Yes
Jan 30, 2025FL11No
Nov 27, 2024GA00Yes
Nov 1, 2024FL01Yes
Oct 4, 2024FL00Yes
Feb 26, 2024FL11Yes
Jan 29, 2024GA00Yes
Jun 9, 2023FL00Yes
May 21, 2023FL00Yes
Mar 17, 2023FL00Yes
Dec 22, 2022FL03Yes
Oct 24, 2022FL01Yes
Aug 10, 2022FL01Yes
Feb 15, 2022FL00Yes
Feb 10, 2022FL00Yes
Jan 22, 2022FL02Yes
Dec 27, 2021FL00Yes
Dec 6, 2021FL00Yes
Dec 6, 2021FL00Yes
Jun 11, 2021FL00Yes
Oct 29, 2020FL00Yes
Oct 29, 2020FL01Yes
Sep 25, 2020FL01No