Trucking Safety Insights
Rankings, trends, and comparisons built from FMCSA and NHTSA data. Every number below links to the source record.
Carrier Rankings
Who's the safest, who's got the most crashes, who to watch.
Carriers with the lowest average BASIC percentile across all seven SMS safety categories.
Carriers with the highest crash counts, fatalities, and hazmat incidents.
Recently registered carriers ranked by violations — early warning signals.
State, Make & Violation Rankings
Where the data clusters by state, by truck brand, and by violation code.
All states ranked by composite safety score — OOS rate, BASIC percentile, crash rate.
Vehicle makes ranked by out-of-service rate from millions of roadside inspections.
Violation codes most likely to trigger an out-of-service order at the roadside.
Trends Over Time
Year-over-year movement in OOS rates, crashes, and seasonal patterns.
Year-over-year OOS rates and crash totals. Is trucking getting safer?
Monthly distribution of crashes, fatalities, and injuries across the year.
Comparisons & Tools
Side-by-side analysis and interactive tools.
Side-by-side safety comparison across carrier entity types.
Compare any two carriers on BASIC scores, OOS rate, crashes, and fleet size.
Related sections
Data sources & freshness
TruckCodex aggregates official public-sector datasets. See the Source registry for dataset-level coverage and the Freshness log for last-import timestamps.
Census, SAFER, SMS, Licensing & Insurance (L&I), roadside inspections, crashes, and authority history.
Vehicle recall campaigns, defect investigations, and consumer safety complaints (SCRS).
Cross-border carrier registry and Canadian recall campaigns where applicable.
TruckCodex is an independent aggregator; it is not affiliated with FMCSA, NHTSA, EIA, or Transport Canada. Always verify compliance-critical information directly with the originating agency.