Carrier profile · USDOT 3137428 · MC-96953 · Updated Jul 3, 2026

Alive Free Transportation LLC

17 power unitsavg 8.6 yrNational · 16 statesHOUSTON, TX82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-96953 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 17.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 22.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 45 vehicle and 84 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 17.6 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

75 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 8

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
17
Inspections · 24 mo
84
Annualized
≈42 / yr
Coverage
≈2.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

79%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
98%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
54%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
39%
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.

  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance106 · 47 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving63 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance49 · 11 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance28 · 7 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 9 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance16 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance11 · 2 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness10 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

180 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 12, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

38ELD device issues
22No log / no ELD
66False logs
27Drove over hours

Trending worse — 53% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 28 total · 7 in 24 mo

28
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253013
20243003
20237037
20223023
20213003
20205024
20193013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 16, 2026AR00Yes
Dec 29, 2025TX00Yes
Feb 18, 2025KS00Yes
Jan 6, 2025OK01Yes
Nov 5, 2024LA00Yes
Aug 28, 2024KS00Yes
Aug 15, 2024GA00Yes
Nov 15, 2023TX01Yes
Nov 10, 2023TX00Yes
Aug 10, 2023KS01Yes
May 16, 2023LA01Yes
May 7, 2023KY00Yes
May 4, 2023OK00Yes
Jan 24, 2023KS00Yes
Aug 30, 2022KS01Yes
Apr 13, 2022TX01Yes
Feb 2, 2022MO00Yes
Dec 12, 2021OK00Yes
May 24, 2021TX00Yes
Apr 25, 2021KS00Yes
Oct 4, 2020TX00Yes
Sep 28, 2020MO02No
Sep 22, 2020TX00Yes
Aug 9, 2020TX01Yes
Apr 1, 2020KS00Yes