Carrier profile · USDOT 2547237 · MC-886876 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

AMERICAN EAGLE FREIGHT INC

26 power unitsavg 4.4 yrMulti-region · 14 statesINDIANAPOLIS, IN76/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-886876 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksamericaneaglefreight.comFMCSA SAFER

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 19.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 14.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 36 vehicle and 64 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 5.9 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

62 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 26-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
26
Inspections · 24 mo
64
Annualized
≈32 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

75%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
86%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
70%
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 Driving71 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 11 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance18 · 7 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance17 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance15 · 8 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

60 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 21, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

42ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
7False logs
4Drove over hours

Trending worse — 62% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 31 total · 7 in 24 mo

31
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20255215
20245005
20232112
20224014
20212012
20202002
20193023
20182012
20173003
20162002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 8, 2026TX01Yes
Dec 16, 2025MO00Yes
Sep 12, 2025NM00Yes
Mar 13, 2025NM20Yes
Feb 5, 2025OK10Yes
Jan 14, 2025AZ01Yes
Sep 26, 2024CA00Yes
Jul 6, 2024TX00Yes
Jun 8, 2024OK00Yes
Mar 31, 2024NM00Yes
Jan 9, 2024NM00Yes
Aug 26, 2023MO00Yes
Jun 30, 2023NM11Yes
Oct 23, 2022NM00Yes
Jun 24, 2022AZ00Yes
May 14, 2022AZ01Yes
Feb 2, 2022IL00Yes
Jul 8, 2021IL00Yes
Mar 24, 2021NM01Yes
Dec 13, 2020NM00Yes
Jun 22, 2020MI00Yes
Dec 17, 2019CA00Yes
Mar 8, 2019NM01Yes
Feb 7, 2019OK01Yes
Oct 24, 2018OK00Yes