SULLIVAN'S LLC 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.

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

Vehicle OOS 28.3% (24-mo)46 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.3% (24-mo)63 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

28.6% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 2.8 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 23-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
23
Inspections · 24 mo
63
Annualized
32 / yr
Coverage
1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

62%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
66%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
22%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
94%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance61 · 8 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving33 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance33
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance30
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance21 · 5 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance17
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance13
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance10
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving7
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 94 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 12 total · 0 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
20233012
20213113
20201001
20191001
20161011
20151001
20131001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/29/2024MS00Yes
09/27/2023AL01No
06/03/2023AL00Yes
03/27/2023AL00Yes
09/30/2021AL00Yes
08/02/2021AL11Yes
06/03/2021AL00Yes
12/30/2020AL00Yes
11/27/2019AL00Yes
09/21/2016AL01Yes
09/21/2015AL00Yes
12/12/2013AL00Yes