Random forest is an ensemble method of machine learning that reaches a high level of accuracy in decision-making but is difficult to understand from the point of view of interpreting local or global decisions. In the article, we use this method as a means to analyze the edge 3colorability of cubic graphs and to find the properties of the graphs that affect it most strongly. The main contributions of the presented research are four original datasets suitable for machine learning methods, a random forest model that achieves 97.35% accuracy in distinguishing edge 3-colorable and edge 3-uncolorable cubic graphs, and the identification of crucial features of graph samples from the point of view of its edge colorability using Shapley values.