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ZERO MAX 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 33.7% (24-mo)374 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.4% (24-mo)678 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

25.0% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 9.1 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 215-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
215
Inspections · 24 mo
679
Annualized
≈340 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

82%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
86%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
57%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
72%
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 Driving409 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance133 · 115 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance85 · 30 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance65 · 23 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance50 · 22 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance48 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance45 · 20 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance32
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance30
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance27

ELD & hours-of-service

105 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 10/07/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

51ELD device issues
6No log / no ELD
35False logs
4Drove over hours

Trending worse — 59% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 138 total · 59 in 24 mo

138
Total crashes
59
In last 24 mo
4
Fatal
37
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263013
2025311730
20244231539
202311059
20227017
2021110211
2020110111
2019180418
20184014
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/18/2026AZ02Yes
05/14/2026VA00Yes
04/30/2026VA00Yes
11/29/2025IN03Yes
11/28/2025CA00Yes
10/19/2025CA01Yes
08/27/2025AZ01Yes
08/02/2025GA00Yes
07/05/2025MO00Yes
06/16/2025FL00Yes
06/05/2025CA00Yes
05/30/2025AZ00Yes
05/08/2025NJ00Yes
05/06/2025NM11Yes
05/01/2025TX00Yes
04/22/2025KS00Yes
04/05/2025CA00Yes
04/02/2025WY00Yes
04/02/2025WY01Yes
03/27/2025TX01Yes
03/25/2025TX00Yes
03/13/2025CA00Yes
03/12/2025CA00Yes
03/05/2025IA00Yes
02/28/2025NJ01No