--- title: "Inspection & Violation Trends Analysis — May 28, 2026 | AlphaLoops Data Hub" description: "Driver OOS rate reached 7.15% in August 2025, up from 4.99% in August 2023, a two-year increase of more than 2 percentage points." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Article", "headline": "Inspection & Violation Trends Analysis — May 28, 2026", "datePublished": "2026-05-28T21:10:58.430761+00:00", "dateModified": "2026-05-28T21:10:58.430761+00:00", "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "AlphaLoops" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "AlphaLoops" }, "description": "Driver OOS rate reached 7.15% in August 2025, up from 4.99% in August 2023, a two-year increase of more than 2 percentage points.", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://runalphaloops.com/data/inspections/archive/2026-05-28" }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "WebSite", "name": "AlphaLoops", "url": "https://runalphaloops.com/" } ] --- [![](/lovable-uploads/AlphaLoops-Logo-2025_Black-Type_White-Background_3280x1024.png)](/) [Product](/product) [Solutions](/solutions) [ Insurance Commercial auto, MGAs, trucking insurance programs ](/solutions/insurance)[ Fleet Payments Fuel cards, expense cards, AP, driver pay ](/solutions/fleet-payments)[ TMS TMS sales, BD, and RevOps ](/solutions/tms)[ Broker Risk Fraud intelligence for brokers and 3PLs ](/solutions/broker-risk)[ Telematics Telematics, ELD, dashcam, and connected fleet sales ](/solutions/telematics) [All solutions →](/solutions) [Integrations](/integrations) [ Salesforce AppExchange managed package · push to Account, Lead, Contact ](/integrations/salesforce)[ HubSpot Managed app · push to Company and Contact with associations ](/integrations/hubspot)[ Microsoft Dynamics 365 Power Automate connector · push to Dataverse Account and Contact ](/integrations/dynamics)[ n8n Verified community node · AI agent workflows ](/integrations/n8n)[ MCP Server Hosted Model Context Protocol · Claude, Cursor, Windsurf ](/mcp) [All integrations →](/integrations) [Pricing](/pricing)[Research](https://research.runalphaloops.com)[What's New](/whats-new) [Log In](https://alphafreight.runalphaloops.com/login)[Book a Demo](/contact) 1. 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[All snapshots](/data/inspections/archive) ## Analysis · as of May 28, 2026 ### Highlights - Driver OOS rate reached 7.15% in August 2025, up from 4.99% in August 2023, a two-year increase of more than 2 percentage points. - Total inspections in the trailing 12 months reached 2,686,451, down from 2,768,325 in the prior 12-month period. - Vehicle OOS rate has held in a narrow 13.3%–16.1% band across all 60 months, while driver OOS rate diverged sharply upward beginning in early 2025. - April 2025 recorded 80,846 total OOS orders, the highest monthly count in the dataset, driven by 20,457 driver OOS events. - The average driver OOS rate over the trailing 12 months is 6.6%, compared to 4.9% in the comparable prior-year period. The sharpest pattern in this dataset is not the well-watched vehicle out-of-service rate, which has remained broadly stable, but the sustained acceleration in driver out-of-service rates beginning in spring 2025. The driver OOS rate was 4.68% in April 2023 and held near that level through early 2025, then climbed to 6.34% in April 2025, 7.12% in July 2025, and 7.15% in August 2025 before partially easing to 6.56% in January 2026. That July–August 2025 peak represents a rate roughly 43% above the 2023 baseline for the same months. Vehicle OOS rates over the same period moved within a much narrower range, running between roughly 14.5% and 16.1% through mid-2025, consistent with the longer-run pattern in the data. The divergence between driver and vehicle OOS trends is the clearest compositional story in the series: whatever is driving more OOS events is concentrated in driver-related violations rather than equipment defects. Inspection volumes rose through 2025, with July 2025 reaching 269,615 total inspections, compared to 215,758 in July 2023, a year-over-two-year increase of roughly 25%. The violation rate, however, has been relatively flat across the full period, moving within a range of approximately 53.5% to 57.9% with no durable directional trend. The trailing 12-month average violation rate of 56.5% compares to 55.3% in the prior 12-month period, a modest uptick that on its own would not be notable. The November 2025 data point, with only 104,298 total inspections against roughly 200,000–260,000 in surrounding months, is an outlier that likely reflects partial or delayed reporting rather than a real activity drop; rates for that month appear consistent with adjacent months, which is consistent with an incomplete data pull rather than a behavioral change. The rise in driver OOS rates is consistent with increased enforcement attention on hours-of-service and driver fitness categories, though the data alone cannot confirm the violation mix driving the change. It may also reflect shifts in the composition of carriers being inspected. Against the full five-year window covering approximately 9.5 million inspections, the current driver OOS rate sits at the high end of the observed range, a meaningful departure from the tight band that characterized 2022 through 2024. ### Key Statistics 7.15% Driver out-of-service rate, monthly high for the dataset August 2025 9,476,766 Total roadside inspections recorded Five-year window through February 2026 15,329,514 Total violations recorded Five-year window through February 2026 56.5% Average violation rate (share of inspections with at least one violation) Trailing 12 months 15.2% Average vehicle out-of-service rate Trailing 12 months 6.6% Average driver out-of-service rate Trailing 12 months 80,846 Total out-of-service orders issued in a single month, highest in the dataset April 2025 269,615 Total roadside inspections conducted, highest single month in the dataset July 2025 474,194 Total violations recorded in a single month, highest in the dataset July 2025 24,450 Driver out-of-service orders issued in a single month July 2025 4.9% Average driver out-of-service rate for comparison period Prior 12 months (ending approximately February 2025) 55.3% Average violation rate for comparison period Prior 12 months (ending approximately February 2025) Cite this data AlphaLoops. 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