Carrier profile · USDOT 229939 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

ABELL INC

16 power unitsavg 7.7 yrLocal · 2 statesKEVIL, KY50/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY

Safety

Roadside out-of-service rates versus the national benchmark, inspection and crash trends, decoded violation themes, and ELD / hours-of-service integrity — the full safety picture behind the verdict.

Out-of-service rate· 24-mo cumulative

Vehicle OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative

050%

Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative

030%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 1 vehicle and 2 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

No roadside inspections on the FMCSA record in this window

Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal

Inspection coverage

How heavily FMCSA inspects this fleet for its size — it tells you how much to trust the safety signals above. Thin coverage on a young authority is a fraud signal nobody else surfaces.

Thin coverage

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.1 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 16-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.

Registered power units: 16
Inspections · 24 mo: 2
Annualized: ≈1 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Percentile = standing among same-exposure peers (higher = worse). FMCSA publishes percentiles for only some carriers (shown official); elsewhere we show a Vektor peer-percentile estimate, or the absolute SMS measure when there are too few inspections to rank.

Violation themes· decoded · grouped by BASIC

What this carrier actually gets cited for — FMCSA violation codes decoded into plain English, ranked by frequency.

392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 3 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 12 total · 2 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026	2	0	0	2
2022	1	0	1	1
2019	1	0	1	1
2018	1	1	1	1
2015	2	0	0	2
2014	1	0	0	1
2013	1	0	0	1
2011	1	0	0	1
2002	1	0	0	1
1997	1	0	1	0

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Feb 16, 2026	IL	0	0	Yes
Feb 13, 2026	KY	0	0	Yes
Dec 13, 2022	IL	0	1	Yes
Sep 17, 2019	IL	0	2	Yes
Dec 20, 2018	KY	1	2	Yes
Oct 27, 2015	KY	0	0	Yes
Jun 22, 2015	IL	0	0	Yes
Nov 8, 2014	KY	0	0	Yes
Sep 14, 2013	KY	0	0	Yes
Nov 16, 2011	KY	0	0	Yes
Jan 22, 2002	IL	0	0	Yes
Apr 15, 1997	KY	0	1	No