Carrier profile · USDOT 7527 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

The Potomac Edison Company

DBA POTOMAC EDISON A FIRSTENERGY COMPANY

225 power unitsRegional · 3 statesWILLIAMSPORT, MD88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 4.8%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 — 21 vehicle and 28 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 9.3 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

28 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '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 225-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
225
Inspections · 24 mo
28
Annualized
≈14 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

9%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
5%
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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 50 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 19 total · 1 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20242002
20232002
20211001
20202102
20191011
20182002
20171011
20051011
19992022
19971011
19962012
19951011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 5, 2025MD00Yes
Aug 9, 2024MD00Yes
Jun 27, 2024MD00Yes
Nov 21, 2023MD00Yes
Jul 6, 2023WV00Yes
Aug 16, 2021MD00Yes
Oct 27, 2020MD10Yes
Mar 29, 2020PA00Yes
Jul 30, 2019MD01Yes
Apr 4, 2018MD00Yes
Feb 9, 2018VA00Yes
Dec 12, 2017MD01Yes
Nov 9, 2005WV02Yes
Apr 29, 1999MD01Yes
Mar 15, 1999MD01Yes
Nov 5, 1997MD02Yes
Oct 19, 1996MD00Yes
Jun 16, 1996MD02Yes
Sep 1, 1995MD01Yes