Out-of-service (OOS) order
An out-of-service order is a federal order shutting a carrier down: the company is prohibited from operating commercial vehicles on public roads while the order is in effect. It is issued against the carrier as a whole, which makes it categorically different from an individual inspection's out-of-service result. See live national out-of-service rates from roadside inspections →
How carriers end up under one
Common causes include an imminent-hazard determination, a final Unsatisfactory safety rating, failure to pay fines, and failing or refusing a new-entrant safety audit. Letting required insurance lapse is not one of them: that gets the operating authority revoked (49 U.S.C. 13905(f)), which is a different action with a different record. The order stays on the record with its date and reason, and a later rescission shows when it was lifted.
What it means at the booking desk
A carrier under an active OOS order that is quoting freight is offering to operate illegally; there is no benign reading. fleetfax treats an active order as the highest-priority blocking issue on the report, checks for it even when other parts of the federal record are unavailable, and shows the order's reason and date so the finding is verifiable against the public record.
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