Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1429764

B & E FREIGHT LLC

HOUSTON, TX 88

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 20.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 15 vehicle and 18 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 18.3 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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
≈1.8 / 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
5
Inspections · 24 mo
18
Annualized
≈9 / yr
Coverage
≈1.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

70%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
52%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
97%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
36%
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 Driving8 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance6
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance6
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance4

ELD & hours-of-service

23 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 09/02/2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

13ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
4False logs
6Drove over hours

1 ELD violation in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 8 total · 1 in 24 mo

8
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20232012
20164014
20131011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
08/30/2025TX00Yes
10/06/2023TX00Yes
01/10/2023CA01Yes
11/03/2016AZ00Yes
08/16/2016TX00Yes
08/04/2016CA01Yes
01/19/2016TX00Yes
08/07/2013TX01Yes