Carrier profile · USDOT 2368130 · MC-812154 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

BIG SMITH INC

DBA SMITH AUTO TRANSPORT

34 power unitsMulti-region · 13 statesSTRAFFORD, MO94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-812154 ACTIVEHAZMAT
Verified linkssmithautotransport.comFMCSA SAFER

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 14.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 14 vehicle and 37 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 8.7 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

36 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '25 · 3

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
≈0.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 34-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
34
Inspections · 24 mo
37
Annualized
≈19 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

53%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
44%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
11%
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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 50 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 19 total · 1 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20243022
20233003
20214014
20192002
20183012
20172011
20161011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 13, 2025MO00Yes
Aug 2, 2024TN01No
Mar 18, 2024OK00Yes
Mar 14, 2024OK01Yes
Oct 11, 2023GA00Yes
Aug 17, 2023OK00Yes
Aug 14, 2023OK00Yes
Oct 25, 2021AR00Yes
Aug 10, 2021CA01Yes
Apr 26, 2021AR00Yes
Jan 19, 2021OK00Yes
Oct 12, 2019MO00Yes
Jun 27, 2019OK00Yes
Aug 28, 2018TX00Yes
Jul 26, 2018OK00Yes
Jul 19, 2018MO01No
Jun 18, 2017OK00Yes
Mar 23, 2017TN02No
Dec 20, 2016TN01Yes