THILGES BROS 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
OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national
Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal
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.
- Registered power units
- 17
- Inspections · 24 mo
- 21
- Annualized
- ≈11 / yr
- Coverage
- ≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr
BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01
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 Driving21
- 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4
- 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3
- 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2
- 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance2
- 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1
- 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
- 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1
ELD & hours-of-service
No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 30 inspections — a clean logging history.
Crash history· 4 total · 1 in 24 mo
| Year | Crashes | Fatal | Injury | Tow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Date | State | Fatalities | Injuries | Tow-away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/10/2025 | SD | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| 05/16/2022 | IA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| 02/26/2019 | IA | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| 08/21/2015 | MN | 0 | 0 | Yes |