UNITRANS 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

Vehicle OOS 19.2% (24-mo)52 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.0% (24-mo)124 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

8.9% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 10.4 pts across the window — latest under 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 50-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
50
Inspections · 24 mo
124
Annualized
62 / yr
Coverage
1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

59%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
50%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
48%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
37%
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 Driving98 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 11 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 2 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving10
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance10 · 4 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance6
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving6

ELD & hours-of-service

26 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/16/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

15ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
1False logs
3Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 25 total · 10 in 24 mo

25
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253003
20248038
20234024
20223013
20217027
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/16/2025GA00Yes
04/07/2025GA00Yes
03/11/2025MO00Yes
11/09/2024TN00Yes
10/22/2024GA02Yes
10/04/2024MO00Yes
09/29/2024AL00Yes
09/27/2024SC00Yes
09/10/2024TX01Yes
08/02/2024VA01Yes
07/19/2024MD00Yes
05/04/2023FL01Yes
04/04/2023TN00Yes
03/22/2023NC01Yes
02/16/2023IA00Yes
10/17/2022KS00Yes
07/13/2022NC02Yes
02/03/2022OH00Yes
12/25/2021WY01Yes
09/09/2021TX00Yes
06/10/2021NV00Yes
06/04/2021PA00Yes
05/10/2021OH00Yes
02/13/2021MT02Yes
02/10/2021IN00Yes