Carrier profile · USDOT 2972398 · MC-862784 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

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10 power unitsavg 4.9 yrNational · 31 statesMASON, OH74/100
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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 36.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 49 vehicle and 98 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

11.1% · 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 9.0 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

95 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 12

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈4.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
10
Inspections · 24 mo
98
Annualized
≈49 / yr
Coverage
≈4.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

95%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
25%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
8%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
82%
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 Driving54 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance26 · 8 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance25 · 17 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance14 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

11 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 30, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
2False logs
1Drove over hours

3 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 13 total · 6 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263023
20251001
20242002
20233013
20222112
20212002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 30, 2026AR01Yes
Mar 11, 2026FL02Yes
Feb 18, 2026OH00Yes
Aug 23, 2025CO00Yes
Dec 6, 2024TN00Yes
Sep 10, 2024TX00Yes
Nov 24, 2023VA00Yes
Jun 7, 2023GA00Yes
Apr 22, 2023PA01Yes
Oct 26, 2022MN01Yes
Oct 22, 2022CO20Yes
Oct 15, 2021CA00Yes
Aug 3, 2021VA00Yes