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DOT #689226 · R B JERGENS CONTRACTORS INC

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R B JERGENS CONTRACTORS INC

DOT# 689226 DUNS# 805598625 Vandalia, OH Authorized For-Hire / Private Property

(937) 669-9799 colton.bowling@rbjergens.com 11418 North Dixie Drive, Vandalia OH 45377

50 power units · all owned 100 drivers

HazMat

Not enough record

Graded once the record supports it

29 yrs history · 14 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units: 50
Drivers · CDL: 100 · 35
Annual miles: 220k unreliable

Type	Own	Total
Trucks	42	42
Tractors	8	8
Trailers	100	100

Registration

Organization: CORPORATION
Registered: 05-13-1997 (29 yrs)
MCS-150 Update: 04-18-2025 (Biennial Update)
FRED Score Date: Nov 07, 2026
Officer: RHONDA RHOADES
Officer: ROBERT DIX

Cargo

63.8

medium risk

Machinery/Large Objects Building Materials Construction

High-Risk Cargo: Machinery Large

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

Exposure Unverified

The expected crashes on this page assume the filed fleet of 50 power units is real, but the roadside record corroborates little of it — 8 units seen in 24 months, 0.14 inspections per filed unit-year. Verify the fleet size before relying on the crash expectation.

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).

Not enough record to grade yet.

14 inspections and 1 crash on the FMCSA record in 24 months fit anything from an Excellent fleet to a Poor one. It leans better than similar fleets (about a 70% chance), but not by enough to grade.

Similar fleets: interstate 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.

80% likely range 0.18×–1.61×

ExcellentStrongSatisf.SatisfactoryMarginalPoorCritical

▲ Similar fleets 1.0×

Expected crashes, next 12 months

0.5 vs 0.6 for similar fleets

Likely 0–2 crashes

This motor carrier

0.5

Similar fleets

0.6

A record this thin can't pin that down: about a 1-in-9 chance it runs at Poor-level crash rates.

Ask

Loss runs for the last 3 years, and confirm the fleet is operating at its filed size (50 power units).

What the record shows

Crash history

betterworse

About typical. 1 injury crash on the FMCSA record in 24 months (about 0.5 a year); similar fleets have about 0.6 a year.

Roadside inspections

betterworse

Better than peers. Out-of-service orders 0.51× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate -7%: roadside results weigh far less than crash history.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The estimate already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are context only.

Injury crashes

1 crash with 1 person 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 (Aug 2025).

Ask: driver supervision and dispatch practices.
Filed fleet not seen on the road

Only 8 of the 50 filed power units were seen at a roadside inspection in 24 months (14 inspections in all). The crash expectation assumes all 50 are running.

Ask: how many trucks are actually operating, with the vehicle schedule (the MCS-150 was last updated Apr 2025).

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, Nov 2024 – Feb 2026 · grade scored on Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026

Crashes

0 fatalities · 1 injury · 0 tow-aways

Inspections

71% clean (no violations)

Vehicle out-of-service

0.0%

0 of 9

National avg 22.3%

Driver out-of-service

7.1%

1 of 14

National avg 6.7%

Violations

2 out-of-service

Inspected less often than interstate fleets of 50–99 trucks in Ohio (about 50 in 24 months would be typical).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order

vs 4,155 peer fleets

	This motor carrier	Peers
Crashes	0.010	0.026
Inspections	0.18	0.97
Violations	0.07	0.56
Critical violations	0.02	0.11

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

What they get cited for

7 violations · 24 months

Hours of service No alert

2 · 1 OOS

Logbook / ELD paperwork 1 · No log 1
Driver fitness No alert

2 · 1 OOS

Medical certificate 1 · No valid CDL 1
Vehicle maintenance No alert

2 · 0 OOS

Other parts 2
Unsafe driving No alert

1 · 0 OOS

Speeding 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

Apr

10

2025

Ohio
Injury · 1 person hurt
Daylight, one-way trafficway not divided.

No other reportable crashes on the FMCSA record.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

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No MC, FF or MX docket on FMCSA's registration for this motor carrier, so there are no insurance filings to show. FMCSA collects filings only from registered for-hire authorities; other motor carriers keep proof of insurance (MCS-90) at their place of business.

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

Kentucky 8
Indiana 3
West Virginia 2
Tennessee 1

How the estimate is calculated

The model, its inputs, the window it scored and its confidence. For actuaries and anyone checking the work.

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

The FRED Score predicts this motor carrier's crash risk over the next 12 months — how often they're likely to crash and how severe those crashes tend to be — versus a typical fleet of its size (50 power units: 50 filed, 8 seen roadside in 24 months).

Crash Outlook vs Peer Fleet

crashes per year · same scale

Average peer fleet

0.6

Actual, per year in window

0.3

Projected, next 12 mo

0.5

0 0.5 1

We'd expect a typical fleet of 50 power units this active to have about 0.6 crashes a year — but only 8 of the 50 filed units were seen roadside in 24 months (0.14 inspections per filed unit-year), so this expectation assumes the filed fleet is real. This motor carrier recorded 1 in its scoring window (Sep 1, 2023 → Aug 31, 2026, about 0.3 a year) — fewer than a typical fleet. Factoring in its inspection and violation record inside that window and the credibility of its own experience, the model projects about 0.5 over the next 12 — below a typical fleet. When this motor carrier does crash, those crashes tend to be substantially more severe than average — roughly 3.3× the injury/fatal weight of a typical crash.

Fatal-crash risk: about 1% chance in the next 12 months

Modeled fatal-crash rate is about typical for similar fleets (likelihood of at least one fatal crash, from its exposure and safety profile; the filed fleet is not corroborated roadside).

Track Record Used

Crashes Sep 1, 2023 → Aug 31, 2026 · inspections Oct 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2026 · data as of Oct 29, 2026

Inside that window: 14 inspections and 1 crash.

Why there is no grade. Every grade but Satisfactory needs at least a 60% posterior past its cut; Satisfactory is what is left when none passes. Here the 80% likely range (0.18×–1.61×) still runs from below the Excellent cut (0.60×) to above the Poor cut (1.57×), so the record can't separate a best-in-class fleet from a poor one and the page shows no grade and no FRED Score. The forecasts are unchanged: in backtests, records this thin crash at their forecast on average but scatter about 2.6× as widely around it as records that support a Satisfactory grade.

Confidence: Low · Z = 0.14 (posterior 0.43 × exposure corroboration)

Satisfactory — 0.79x its class rate (cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11). Class rate 0.012 crashes per power-unit-year for a 50-unit for-hire fleet (pu50_99). Violations 0.93x (driver behaviour 0.99x, out-of-service 0.51x, all violations 0.84x; 14 inspections). Experience 0.85x: 0.6 decayed crashes against 0.8 expected over 36 months (credibility 0.43, a 1.15). 80% range 0.18–1.61x. Exposure: 8 of 50 filed power units seen roadside in 24 months, 0.14 inspections per filed unit-year — the class expectation assumes the filed fleet is real; confidence cut. Last change: no change since the last run.

No change since the previous weekly run.

Scoring flags MCS-150 mileage unreliable (mileage is not in the grade) Thin record (low credibility: little exposure behind the grade) Filed fleet not corroborated roadside — expected crashes assume the filed units are real; an Excellent or Strong grade is capped one band (interim)

What Drives This Score

1.00× = this motor carrier's class rate

FRED multiplies three factors: the class rate a fleet of this size, class and activity is expected to run, a violation relativity from its roadside record, and its own crash experience over 36 months weighted by how much exposure stands behind it. The grade is the band of the resulting relativity to class, then the screens.

Class rate

1.2 crashes per 100 power-unit-years

50 power units (8 seen roadside — exposure unverified) · 0.59 expected crashes a year

Violation relativity

0.93×

14 inspections in window

Crash experience

0.85×

0.6 decayed crashes vs 0.8 expected · credibility 0.43

Driver behaviour

0.99×

Out-of-service rate

0.51×

All violations

0.84×

0×1× class2×+

Each sub-relativity is shrunk toward its cohort rate when the record is thin (Bühlmann credibility), so a short record reads close to 1.00×.

Relativity to class 0.79× (80% range 0.18–1.61×) · band Satisfactory · cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11, Critical above

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FMCSA records

BASIC measures and every inspection, violation and crash, sortable and filterable.

FMCSA BASIC Scores

AB Property

Total Inspections

Driver Insp

Driver OOS

Vehicle Insp

Vehicle OOS

BASIC	Insp w/ Viol	Measure
Unsafe Driving	1	0.20
HOS Compliance	2	0.66
Driver Fitness	2	0.66
Controlled Substances	0	0.00
Vehicle Maintenance	1	0.45

SMS record data is sourced from FMCSA's Safety Measurement System (01-DEC-25 – 30-SEP-25) and may cover a different time window than the scoring window used for the FRED grade (Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026). Counts here may differ from the grade's in-window counts.

R B JERGENS CONTRACTORS INC

Fleet & equipment

Registration

Cargo

Worth a closer look

Track record

What they get cited for

Violations by quarter

Crashes

Insurance filed with FMCSA

Where it happens

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

FMCSA BASIC Scores

FMCSA Inspection Records

FMCSA Crash Records

FMCSA Violation Records

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Fleet & equipment

Registration

Cargo

Worth a closer look

Track record

What they get cited for

Violations by quarter

Crashes

Insurance filed with FMCSA

Where it happens

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

FMCSA BASIC Scores

FMCSA Inspection Records

FMCSA Crash Records

FMCSA Violation Records