Carrier profile · USDOT 137389 · MC-328836 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Beard Equipment Company

36 power unitsavg 4.9 yrMulti-region · 8 statesMOBILE, AL88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-328836 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 18.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 54 vehicle and 79 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 12.4 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

74 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 7

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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 36-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
36
Inspections · 24 mo
79
Annualized
≈40 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

25%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
15%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
4%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
24%
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 Driving16 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 6 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

22 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 22, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

20ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 85% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 13 total · 1 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20241001
20231001
20221001
20191001
20181011
20171011
20161001
20121001
20041001
20021010
20001001
19981101
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 12, 2026FL01Yes
Apr 19, 2024FL00Yes
Feb 8, 2023AL00Yes
Jul 14, 2022AL00Yes
Jan 29, 2019FL00Yes
Feb 27, 2018FL01Yes
May 5, 2017FL02Yes
Aug 3, 2016FL00Yes
Nov 15, 2012FL00Yes
Sep 10, 2004AL00Yes
Mar 22, 2002MS01No
Jul 18, 2000MS00Yes
Aug 19, 1998AL10Yes