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UNIVERSAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES 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.

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

Vehicle OOS 25.0% (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

33.3% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 13.1 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 44-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
44
Inspections · 24 mo
6
Annualized
≈3 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

1%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
73%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
79%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving3
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving3
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.81 HornVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 9 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 5 total · 1 in 24 mo

5
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20151001
20081010
20051001
20041010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/21/2025FL01Yes
09/09/2015FL00Yes
03/20/2008FL01No
08/14/2005TX00Yes
07/24/2004FL01No