Carrier profile · USDOT 1732507 · MC-1255612 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Summertown Metals LLC

30 power unitsavg 5.3 yrRegional · 4 statesSUMMERTOWN, TN68/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1255612 ACTIVE
Verified linkssummertownmetals.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 44.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 10.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 38 vehicle and 59 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

66.7% · 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 21.1 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

57 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 30-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
59
Annualized
≈30 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

63%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
34%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
75%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
55%
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 Driving20 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 6 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 2 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving6 · 6 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness5 · 2 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 13, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
2False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 11 total · 2 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252002
20231001
20222002
20211011
20203013
20171111
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 21, 2025TN00Yes
Feb 26, 2025TN00Yes
Feb 2, 2023TN00Yes
Jun 7, 2022TN00Yes
Apr 4, 2022TN00Yes
May 24, 2021TN01Yes
Aug 10, 2020TN00Yes
Jun 19, 2020TN00Yes
Apr 18, 2020TN02Yes
Sep 22, 2017TN18Yes
Feb 23, 2015TN00Yes