Carrier profile · USDOT 3454228 · MC-1125470 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

BGT Carriers Inc

34 power unitsavg 8.4 yrMulti-region · 14 statesLAREDO, TX62/100
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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 41.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 26.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 43 vehicle and 77 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

36.4% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 43.0 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 '25 · 8

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 34-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
34
Inspections · 24 mo
77
Annualized
≈39 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

46%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
69%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
94%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
84%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance32 · 4 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness26 · 15 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance24 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance24 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving22 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance13 · 4 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 4 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance10 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 5 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

77 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 26, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

62ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
5False logs
4Drove over hours

Trending worse — 85% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 12 total · 3 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20244104
20233023
20223003
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 26, 2026AL00Yes
Jan 28, 2026TN00Yes
Dec 18, 2024TX00Yes
Jun 26, 2024TX00Yes
Apr 26, 2024TN10Yes
Jan 29, 2024TX00Yes
Nov 21, 2023GA00Yes
Aug 6, 2023TN01Yes
Jul 28, 2023TX04Yes
Nov 11, 2022TN00Yes
Nov 5, 2022TX00Yes
Sep 27, 2022GA00Yes