BDJ TRUCKING COMPANY 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 18.8% (24-mo)165 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.3% (24-mo)307 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

17.1% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 3.2 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 142-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
142
Inspections · 24 mo
307
Annualized
154 / yr
Coverage
1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

81%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
72%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
45%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
57%
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 Driving109
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance47 · 9 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance44 · 32 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance40 · 14 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance30
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance26
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance25 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance14 · 4 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance14 · 2 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance12

ELD & hours-of-service

91 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/06/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

50ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
14False logs
11Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 93 total · 13 in 24 mo

93
Total crashes
13
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
25
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20258137
2024150515
20236126
202210039
2021120410
20209029
2019130413
20187017
20173113
20163003
20151001
20132002
20121001
20101001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/11/2026UT00Yes
02/06/2026IN00Yes
12/11/2025ND00Yes
11/20/2025IA00Yes
11/13/2025IN00Yes
08/08/2025FL01No
02/27/2025NM33Yes
02/17/2025MT00Yes
02/14/2025WY00Yes
01/16/2025MN02Yes
11/26/2024VA00Yes
11/06/2024IN01Yes
09/06/2024IL01Yes
07/27/2024NE00Yes
07/26/2024WY00Yes
07/11/2024IN00Yes
06/19/2024TX00Yes
05/22/2024IL01Yes
05/05/2024VA01Yes
04/26/2024NE00Yes
04/24/2024MN01Yes
04/07/2024MO00Yes
02/08/2024WY00Yes
01/31/2024NJ00Yes
01/05/2024OR00Yes