Carrier profile · USDOT 326718 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Townsend Brothers Trucking Company

6 power unitsavg 7 yrRegional · 4 statesMARION, OH82/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY
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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 100.0%24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 14.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 1 vehicle and 7 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

7 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 1

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 6-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
6
Inspections · 24 mo
7
Annualized
≈4 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

53%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
59%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
20measure
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.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving16 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 22, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 14 total · 1 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
20231001
20221001
20201001
20191011
20181001
20172011
20062012
20031001
20021001
20011001
19981001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 3, 2024OH00Yes
Oct 19, 2023CT00Yes
Jan 8, 2022IN00Yes
Apr 23, 2020PA00Yes
Sep 10, 2019PA01Yes
Jun 10, 2018OH00Yes
Jun 27, 2017OH00Yes
Mar 19, 2017OH01No
Dec 12, 2006IN00Yes
Nov 14, 2006OH01Yes
Mar 16, 2003OH00Yes
Sep 16, 2002IN00Yes
May 30, 2001IN00Yes
Apr 10, 1998OH00Yes