TRUE FREIGHT SYSTEM INC 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.

Active federal out-of-service order — do not tender

90 day failure to pay fine · ordered 09/09/2024

FMCSA has ordered this carrier to cease operations. Verify current status with FMCSA before any tender.

Out-of-service rate· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 150.0% (24-mo)4 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 33.3% (24-mo)6 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

87.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 31.9 pts across the window — latest above 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.

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 5-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
5
Inspections · 24 mo
6
Annualized
3 / yr
Coverage
0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

18%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
94%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
89%
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 Driving32
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance12
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 7 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 3 OOS
  • 386.83 Other violationOther5 · 5 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 392.4 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving3 · 3 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance2

ELD & hours-of-service

17 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 12/27/2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
7False logs
0Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 2 total · 0 in 24 mo

2
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
0
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20232002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
08/05/2023NE00Yes
01/11/2023AZ00Yes