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UNIVERSAL DEDICATED OF SMYRNA TN 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 19.4% (24-mo)437 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.3% (24-mo)696 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

15.4% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 5.0 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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 319-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
319
Inspections · 24 mo
696
Annualized
≈348 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

77%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
67%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
35%
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 Driving162
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance107 · 96 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance72 · 17 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance36 · 8 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance32
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance31
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance25 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance23
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving17
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance12

ELD & hours-of-service

126 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/29/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

88ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
5False logs
25Drove over hours

Trending worse — 69% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 57 total · 19 in 24 mo

57
Total crashes
19
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
2025150115
20248038
2023140514
20226026
20215025
20205025
20192012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/31/2026IN00Yes
01/30/2026IN00Yes
12/19/2025MI00Yes
12/02/2025MA00Yes
12/01/2025TN00Yes
10/23/2025AZ00Yes
09/24/2025MI00Yes
08/04/2025IL02Yes
06/25/2025TN00Yes
06/17/2025IN00Yes
06/13/2025TN00Yes
05/12/2025MI00Yes
04/23/2025TN00Yes
04/09/2025IN00Yes
03/17/2025IN00Yes
01/23/2025IN00Yes
01/04/2025MO00Yes
10/03/2024MI02Yes
09/25/2024AL00Yes
06/26/2024IL00Yes
05/30/2024TN00Yes
03/20/2024MI00Yes
03/18/2024TN00Yes
01/03/2024NY01Yes
01/03/2024MI01Yes