Carrier profile · USDOT 10715 · MC-133367 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Watsontown Trucking Company

555 power unitsavg 5.8 yrNational · 47 statesMILTON, PA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-133367 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkswatsontowntrucking.comFMCSA SAFER

Safety

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· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 15.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 392 vehicle and 803 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

15.9% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 4.4 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

785 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 49

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 555-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
555
Inspections · 24 mo
803
Annualized
≈402 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

34%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
49%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
22%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
29%
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 Driving141 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance59 · 16 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance43 · 40 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance38 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance34 · 10 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance33 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance31 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance23 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance14 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance12 · 5 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

127 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 21, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

86ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
2False logs
8Drove over hours

Trending worse — 84% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 342 total · 32 in 24 mo

342
Total crashes
32
In last 24 mo
15
Fatal
123
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
2026100310
2025150515
2024180418
2023100210
2022142313
2021140614
2020134413
2019190817
2018132313
201710039
2016100610
2015200220
2014190319
2013170915
2012162716
20119059
2010140514
20098028
2008141712
200710048
20069256
20056006
20047035
20038068
20024014
20014023
20005024
19995035
19984014
19976045
19965114
19954124
19942021
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 2, 2026VA00Yes
Apr 4, 2026VA00Yes
Apr 3, 2026VA01Yes
Feb 13, 2026VA00Yes
Feb 7, 2026OH01Yes
Feb 6, 2026VA00Yes
Jan 14, 2026IN00Yes
Jan 12, 2026VA00Yes
Jan 10, 2026WI00Yes
Jan 5, 2026PA01Yes
Dec 30, 2025KY00Yes
Dec 22, 2025DE01Yes
Dec 14, 2025IN00Yes
Dec 9, 2025VA01Yes
Oct 30, 2025PA01Yes
Oct 14, 2025WI01Yes
Sep 25, 2025PA01Yes
Aug 4, 2025OH00Yes
May 21, 2025NC00Yes
Mar 17, 2025PA00Yes
Feb 21, 2025PA00Yes
Feb 17, 2025OH00Yes
Jan 28, 2025VA00Yes
Jan 14, 2025IN00Yes
Jan 3, 2025PA00Yes