SANDYS AUTO AND TRUCK SERVICE INC

DBA: SANDYS

DOT# 218779 MC# 159307 DUNS# 59115824 Dayton, OH Authorized For-Hire / Private Property
(937) 294-6353 doug.thoma@sandystowing.com 3053 Springboro Road West, Dayton OH 45439-1715
75 power units · all owned 64 drivers
Marginal
FRED Score 30.0 / 100
Low confidence
44 yrs history · 17 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
75
Drivers · CDL
64 · 26
Annual miles
1.7M unreliable
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 65 0 0 65
Tractors 10 0 0 10
Trailers 8 0 0 8

Registration

Organization
CORPORATION
FMCSA Rating
Satisfactory (12-13-1991) · 34 yr old
Registered
07-26-1982 (44 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
05-15-2025 (Address Change)
FRED Score Date
Nov 07, 2026
Officer
DOUGLAS THOMA
Officer
TED A DURIG

Cargo

70.8
high risk
Motor Vehicles Drive/Tow Away Machinery/Large Objects General Freight Building Materials Construction
High-Risk Cargo
Motor Vehicles, Drive/Tow Away, Machinery Large, General Freight

Note: "General Freight" is a catch-all; the actual cargo mix and its risk may differ.

Estimated from the commodity types reported to FMCSA, not from loss history or the true cargo mix.

Mileage Unreliable

MCS-150 annual mileage appears too low for fleet size given observed activity. The per-100k-mile rate benchmarks on this page are excluded; the FRED grade does not use mileage (crash exposure is power-unit-years, violation exposure is inspection counts).

Expected crash rate is probably higher than similar fleets (about a 90% chance), but the record is too thin to say by how much.

Similar fleets: for-hire fleets of 50–99 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

Per truck, fleets like this one are expected to crash about 0.5× as often as the median active fleet of 50–99 trucks.

This motor carrier 1.68×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ Similar fleets 1.0×
Leaning Poor. Its estimate (1.68× similar fleets) is in the Poor range, but the record isn't strong enough to be 60% sure it is above the Poor line (1.57×), so the grade stays Marginal.
Expected crashes, next 12 months
2.6 vs 1.5 for similar fleets
Likely 0–5 crashes
This motor carrier
2.6
Similar fleets
1.5
Chance of a fatal crash, next 12 months
~7%
About 1.7× similar fleets.
What's driving the grade
Crash history
betterworse
Leans worse, not yet proven. 7 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months (about 3.5 a year), including 2 with injuries; similar fleets have about 1.5 a year. The grade counts 10 crashes in its 36-month scoring window, recent ones weighted most.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Worse than peers. Unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 1.89× and out-of-service orders 1.53× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate +11%: roadside results weigh far less than crash history.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The grade already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are not in it.

  • Injury crashes
    2 crashes with 2 people hurt in 24 months.
    Ask: claim status and driver history for these crashes.
  • Drivers put out of service
    2 out-of-service violations against drivers: 1 no valid CDL, 1 hours of service (Oct 2025 – May 2026).
    Ask: driver supervision and dispatch practices.
Strengths
  • No FMCSA BASIC alerts.
Data flags
  • Unreliable reported mileage
    The motor carrier's self-reported annual mileage (MCS-150) looks implausible, so exposure- and mileage-based figures may be distorted.
  • Estimated mileage
    No usable mileage was reported, so exposure was estimated from similar motor carriers. Mileage-based metrics here are approximate.

Track record

FMCSA record, Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 · grade scored on Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026
Crashes
7
0 fatalities · 2 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
17
24% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
30.8%
4 of 13
National avg 22.3%
Driver out-of-service
11.8%
2 of 17
National avg 6.7%
Violations
23
7 out-of-service
Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q4 '24: 1 inspections, 1 out of service 1 Q4 '24 Q1 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q1 '25 Q2 '25: 2 inspections, 0 out of service 2 Q2 '25 Q3 '25: 3 inspections, 0 out of service 3 Q3 '25 Q4 '25: 3 inspections, 2 out of service 3 Q4 '25 Q1 '26: 2 inspections, 1 out of service 2 Q1 '26 Q2 '26: 2 inspections, 1 out of service 2 Q2 '26 Q3 '26: 3 inspections, 1 out of service 3 Q3 '26
vs 258 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.047 0.026
Inspections 0.19 0.80
Violations 0.15 0.48
Critical violations 0.06 0.10

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: 50–99 power units, high-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

23 violations · 24 months
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    12 · 5 OOS
    Lights 5 · Cargo securement 4 · Tires 2 · Brakes 1
  • Unsafe driving No alert
    5 · 0 OOS
    Seat belt 3 · Phone use 1 · Speeding 1
  • Hours of service No alert
    4 · 1 OOS
    Logbook / ELD paperwork 2 · No log 2
  • Driver fitness No alert
    2 · 1 OOS
    Medical certificate 1 · No valid CDL 1
  • Drugs & alcohol No alert
    0
Out-of-service violations “No alert” = under FMCSA's BASIC intervention threshold

Violations by quarter

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No violation trend data

Crashes

24 months
  • Mar
    16
    2026
    Ohio
    Injury · 1 person hurt
    Snow road, dark - lighted, snow, one-way trafficway not divided.
  • Jan
    28
    2026
    Ohio
    Property damage only
    Ice road, daylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.
  • Dec
    21
    2025
    Ohio
    Injury · 1 person hurt
    Daylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.
  • Aug
    1
    2025
    Ohio
    Property damage only
    Dark - lighted, one-way trafficway not divided.
  • Jul
    25
    2025
    Ohio
    Property damage only
    Daylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.
  • Jun
    20
    2025
    Ohio
    Property damage only
    Daylight, one-way trafficway not divided.
  • Feb
    25
    2025
    Indiana
    Property damage only
    Daylight.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

FMCSA record through May 14, 2026 · no change recorded by FMCSA since
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Last on FMCSA's record (May 14, 2026)
$1,000,000 · EMPLOYERS MUTUAL CASUALTY CO.
on record since Jun 30, 2020 · FMCSA minimum $750,000 · no gap on FMCSA's record since Dec 1990
Cargo filing
not required by FMCSA (household-goods motor carriers only); the cargo policy is not on FMCSA's record
36 months to May 14, 2026
  • One liability insurer throughout
  • No gap in filed liability coverage while liability was required

Operating authority active (FMCSA's L&I record of May 14, 2026, status since Oct 20, 2005)

Who insures fleets like this →

FMCSA filings only, not a policy audit. Not part of the FRED grade. Wrong or out of date?

Where it happens

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Inspections by state
  • Ohio (HQ) 8
  • Indiana 2
  • Michigan 2
  • West Virginia 2
  • Georgia 1
  • Kentucky 1
  • Nevada 1