Carrier profile · USDOT 2192811 · MC-761022 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

AMISTAD FREIGHT INC

68 power unitsavg 4.2 yrNational · 24 statesUNION, MS75/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-761022 ACTIVE
Verified linksamistadfreight.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 27.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 51 vehicle and 110 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

16.7% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 10.6 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

104 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 10

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 68-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
68
Inspections · 24 mo
110
Annualized
≈55 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

68%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
91%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
62%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
90%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
41%
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 Driving75 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance36 · 6 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 9 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

75 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 5, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

36ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
28False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 83% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 45 total · 8 in 24 mo

45
Total crashes
8
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20254014
20247016
20235034
20226016
20214004
20203003
20186126
20174034
20162002
20152012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 24, 2026AR01Yes
Mar 8, 2026FL00Yes
Jul 13, 2025NM00Yes
May 12, 2025MS01Yes
Mar 7, 2025CA00Yes
Feb 28, 2025NM00Yes
Sep 17, 2024TX00Yes
Sep 16, 2024KY00Yes
Jun 28, 2024KS00Yes
Jun 23, 2024CA00Yes
Jun 19, 2024IN00Yes
Apr 28, 2024CA00Yes
Jan 22, 2024TX01No
Nov 28, 2023VA01Yes
Aug 10, 2023TX01No
Aug 10, 2023TX00Yes
Jun 27, 2023AL01Yes
Feb 1, 2023GA00Yes
Oct 12, 2022FL00Yes
Sep 16, 2022TN00Yes
Aug 25, 2022AL01Yes
Jul 15, 2022GA00Yes
Mar 11, 2022AR00Yes
Mar 4, 2022NM00Yes
Oct 16, 2021MS00Yes