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VTS CARRIERS 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 22.6% (24-mo)84 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.6% (24-mo)125 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

12.1% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 14.3 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈3.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
20
Inspections · 24 mo
125
Annualized
≈63 / yr
Coverage
≈3.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

35%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
79%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
84%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
48%
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 Maintenance28 · 5 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance27 · 4 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving23
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance16
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance15 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance15
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance13
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance12
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 7 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11

ELD & hours-of-service

51 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 02/25/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

38ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
4False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 87% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 12 total · 5 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20254024
20242002
20233013
20211001
20202002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
10/31/2025AL00Yes
10/10/2025OK01Yes
07/25/2025TX01Yes
01/16/2025TX00Yes
08/27/2024AL00Yes
02/23/2024AL00Yes
08/04/2023MS01Yes
01/12/2023AL00Yes
01/12/2023AL00Yes
08/25/2021TX00Yes
11/18/2020MS00Yes
07/21/2020TX00Yes