Carrier profile · USDOT 429024 · MC-730466 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

B & L Tire Service Inc

DBA B & L TOWING

30 power unitsLocal · 2 statesCARTERET, NJ94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-730466 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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 41 vehicle and 19 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

2.4% · 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 2.9 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

23 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 14

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 30-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
41
Annualized
≈21 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
44%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
20%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
clean · per-BASIC

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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.71 Coupling / towing devicesVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent May 15, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 32 total · 5 in 24 mo

32
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20252012
20244004
20231011
20223032
20201001
20191011
20182002
20161001
20153013
20142022
20122012
20111001
20092002
20081001
20071001
20041001
19982011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 31, 2026NJ00Yes
Jan 8, 2026NJ02Yes
Sep 26, 2025NJ02Yes
Aug 12, 2025NJ00Yes
Oct 4, 2024PA00Yes
Jun 13, 2024NJ00Yes
May 2, 2024NJ00Yes
Mar 7, 2024NJ00Yes
Oct 10, 2023NY01Yes
Jul 7, 2022NJ01Yes
Jun 15, 2022PA01Yes
Jan 28, 2022NJ01No
Nov 10, 2020NJ00Yes
Aug 8, 2019NJ01Yes
Dec 3, 2018NJ00Yes
Oct 8, 2018NJ00Yes
Oct 10, 2016NJ00Yes
Oct 16, 2015NJ00Yes
Sep 2, 2015NJ02Yes
Mar 23, 2015NJ00Yes
Dec 11, 2014NJ01Yes
Mar 15, 2014PA01Yes
Feb 9, 2012NJ01Yes
Jan 20, 2012NJ00Yes
Jan 28, 2011NJ00Yes