VALCOM 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 39.8% (24-mo)83 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.8% (24-mo)133 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

32.3% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 10.0 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 42-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
42
Inspections · 24 mo
133
Annualized
67 / yr
Coverage
1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

80%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
41%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
76%
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.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving79 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance42 · 10 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance25
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance23 · 8 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance19
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 17 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance16 · 12 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance15
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance15 · 7 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance13

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 01/26/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

6ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
4False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 83% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 20 total · 4 in 24 mo

20
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252002
20245005
20224004
20211011
20201011
20191001
20182012
20172102
20141001
20131001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/27/2025OR00Yes
01/21/2025WA00Yes
08/30/2024WA00Yes
07/30/2024WA00Yes
03/12/2024OR00Yes
03/11/2024OR00Yes
01/16/2024OR00Yes
12/30/2022WA00Yes
12/19/2022WA00Yes
03/09/2022WA00Yes
02/18/2022WA00Yes
12/06/2021CA01Yes
10/08/2020WA01Yes
06/27/2019WA00Yes
11/23/2018WA01Yes
01/18/2018WA00Yes
04/05/2017WA00Yes
01/19/2017WA10Yes
01/27/2014OR00Yes
10/04/2013WA00Yes