B & F TOWING CO Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 18.2% (24-mo)11 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)5 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

20.0% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 36.3 pts across the window — latest under the 22.26% national benchmark.

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
0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 30-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
30
Inspections · 24 mo
11
Annualized
6 / yr
Coverage
0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
19%
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.

  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving2
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 20 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 20 total · 0 in 24 mo

20
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20191011
20181001
20161001
20151001
20141001
20123013
20111001
20102022
20091001
20061001
20031010
20012012
19992021
19981001
19971010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
12/04/2019DE04Yes
07/03/2018MD00Yes
01/13/2016DE00Yes
09/18/2015DE00Yes
04/01/2014PA00Yes
12/03/2012MD00Yes
07/09/2012DE01Yes
05/11/2012DE00Yes
02/08/2011DE00Yes
11/10/2010DE01Yes
07/02/2010DE02Yes
10/14/2009DE00Yes
11/20/2006DE00Yes
05/06/2003PA01No
12/13/2001DE00Yes
09/20/2001DE01Yes
12/20/1999DE01Yes
03/29/1999DE01No
11/06/1998DE00Yes
12/05/1997DE01No