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VINNY'S TOWING AND RECOVERY 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 11.6% (24-mo)69 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.4% (24-mo)73 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

16.7% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 3.7 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
≈1.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 25-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
25
Inspections · 24 mo
73
Annualized
≈37 / yr
Coverage
≈1.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

64%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
6%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
27%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
11%
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 Driving13
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.130 Cargo securement — heavy vehicles/equipmentVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.17 Lamps/reflectors on projecting loadsVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent 04/14/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 9 total · 2 in 24 mo

9
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251001
20231001
20211001
20191001
20171011
20152012
20101001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/03/2026MD00Yes
06/05/2025VA00Yes
12/05/2023MD00Yes
10/28/2021PA00Yes
10/16/2019MD00Yes
10/17/2017MD01Yes
11/14/2015MD01Yes
11/06/2015MD00Yes
12/28/2010MD00Yes