Hunter Nelson explains DOT inspection color ratings: green status avoids inspections, yellow invites discretionary ones, and red triggers frequent mandatory pull-overs. Fixing problems lowers your score, but repeated inspections without repairs make things worse.
You guys obviously do not want to be red. You don't want to be yellow. Obviously, you want to be green. If the DOT officer sees you and you're green, you're going to get let by 99% of the time. Yellow. It's like, okay, they can kind of do what they want. Depends how busy they are. Red is like, they see you guys, DOT drive by, they're supposed to be pulling you over. So you're going to get way more inspections. That could be a good or a bad thing. If you guys are noticing that. Trying to clean it up, great. You want more inspections to lower that score. If you're not really doing much and your square just keeps creeping up, obviously don't be red. You only inspect a whole lot more because it's just going to make things worse.
