Carrier profile · USDOT 1607702 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Alabama Foundation Specialists of Birmingham Inc

DBA AFS

129 power unitsavg 4.2 yrRegional · 7 statesHUNTSVILLE, AL80/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
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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 · vs national

Vehicle OOS 39.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 13.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 59 vehicle and 84 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

35.3% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 8.9 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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

84 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '26 · 7

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

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
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 129-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
129
Inspections · 24 mo
84
Annualized
≈42 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

32%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
14%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
90%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
63%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
69%
Vehicle Maintenance
Vektor peer est.

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 Driving65 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance61 · 17 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance19 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance17 · 16 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness17 · 4 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance15 · 1 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 13 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance11 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness9 · 8 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Jun 16, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 12 total · 0 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20231001
20214004
20201001
20192002
20161001
20121011
20111001
20101011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Sep 13, 2023AL00Yes
Sep 13, 2021AL00Yes
Aug 18, 2021AL00Yes
Jun 29, 2021AL00Yes
Jan 18, 2021AL00Yes
Jan 3, 2020TN00Yes
Sep 30, 2019AL00Yes
Jan 24, 2019AL00Yes
Sep 12, 2016OH00Yes
Jun 5, 2012AL01Yes
Oct 12, 2011AL00Yes
Dec 21, 2010AL01Yes