WHIMSY 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 20.5% (24-mo)73 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.8% (24-mo)124 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

15.2% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 2.3 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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 142-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
142
Inspections · 24 mo
124
Annualized
62 / yr
Coverage
0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

42%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
66%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
50%
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 Driving52
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance44 · 11 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance18 · 5 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance13
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance12 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance10
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 6 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

24 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.

13ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
5False logs
4Drove over hours

Trending worse — 85% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 79 total · 7 in 24 mo

79
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
29
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20253023
20243013
20239038
20225025
20213123
20201001
20193023
20186016
20174014
20163113
20153023
20141001
20132002
20121001
20112002
20104033
20093021
20081001
20075005
20061011
20051011
20041001
20033023
20014023
20001001
19992002
19981001
19971010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/07/2026IN00Yes
02/05/2026MO00Yes
11/05/2025IN01Yes
10/09/2025IL00Yes
09/29/2025IL01Yes
10/10/2024IL01Yes
09/30/2024IL00Yes
01/22/2024IL00Yes
10/11/2023IN00Yes
08/31/2023WI00Yes
08/31/2023IL00Yes
05/10/2023IL00Yes
05/09/2023IL00Yes
05/01/2023IL02Yes
03/03/2023IL02No
02/28/2023IL02Yes
01/30/2023IL00Yes
10/11/2022IL00Yes
05/02/2022MO00Yes
02/11/2022IL01Yes
02/02/2022MI01Yes
01/19/2022IL00Yes
11/09/2021MI00Yes
06/16/2021MO01Yes
02/04/2021IA13Yes