Carrier profile · USDOT 876681 · Updated Aug 16, 2026

Tampa Bay Steel Company

15 power unitsavg 6.8 yrLocal · 1 statesTAMPA, FL88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkstampabaysteel.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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 3 vehicle and 8 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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

8 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 15-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
15
Inspections · 24 mo
8
Annualized
≈4 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

22%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
8.5measure
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.

  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

Crash history· 14 total · 3 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252022
20181001
20171001
20161011
20113013
20091111
20071011
20042022
20001111
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 14, 2026FL00Yes
May 7, 2025FL01Yes
Jan 28, 2025FL01Yes
Oct 31, 2018FL00Yes
May 19, 2017FL00Yes
May 11, 2016FL01Yes
Dec 16, 2011FL00Yes
Nov 21, 2011FL00Yes
Jul 7, 2011FL02Yes
Jun 10, 2009FL12Yes
Jul 13, 2007FL01Yes
Dec 21, 2004FL02Yes
Aug 26, 2004FL03Yes
Jul 10, 2000FL15Yes