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TESLA TRANSPORTATION GROUP 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 22.7% (24-mo)110 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.6% (24-mo)231 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

14.3% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 2.7 pts across the window — latest under 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
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 95-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
95
Inspections · 24 mo
231
Annualized
≈116 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

87%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
54%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
48%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
66%
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 Driving93
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance30 · 19 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance24 · 4 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance20 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance16
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance14
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance13
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance12 · 7 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance12
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance10

ELD & hours-of-service

31 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/21/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

19ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
8False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 89% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 17 total · 10 in 24 mo

17
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20257027
20243012
20233003
20221001
20211001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/08/2026MS00Yes
04/05/2026IL00Yes
09/21/2025IL00Yes
09/07/2025PA00Yes
09/04/2025AR00Yes
07/08/2025KS00Yes
04/24/2025MS01Yes
04/08/2025NJ00Yes
02/21/2025PA01Yes
11/21/2024IN00Yes
07/06/2024AL00Yes
04/23/2024TX01No
09/12/2023SC00Yes
02/26/2023AZ00Yes
01/20/2023MN00Yes
08/21/2022IL00Yes
08/16/2021PA00Yes