Carrier profile · USDOT 2914596 · MC-982493 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Bigbear Trucking Corp

26 power unitsavg 7.3 yrMulti-region · 12 statesCITY OF INDUSTRY, CA87/100
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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 30.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 78 vehicle and 112 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12.5% · 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 1.7 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

112 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 15

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
26
Inspections · 24 mo
120
Annualized
≈60 / yr
Coverage
≈2.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

65%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
62%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
67%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
65%
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 Driving48 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance38 · 32 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance32 · 10 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance29 · 8 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance28 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance24 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance17 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance17 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance14 · 5 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

39 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 8, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

16ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
4False logs
3Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 30 total · 10 in 24 mo

30
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20258027
20243013
20232012
20224004
20214014
20202012
20195015
20181001
20171001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 14, 2025AZ02Yes
Oct 8, 2025NJ01No
Sep 10, 2025PA00Yes
Aug 3, 2025CA00Yes
Jun 18, 2025AZ00Yes
Jun 2, 2025AR00Yes
Mar 4, 2025CA00Yes
Jan 5, 2025TN00Yes
Nov 29, 2024AR00Yes
Nov 6, 2024AR00Yes
Jun 16, 2024OK02Yes
Apr 8, 2023CA01Yes
Mar 15, 2023CA00Yes
Dec 15, 2022VA00Yes
Dec 6, 2022TX00Yes
Nov 18, 2022VA00Yes
Apr 18, 2022TN00Yes
Oct 6, 2021NM01Yes
Sep 7, 2021NY00Yes
Jun 3, 2021NJ00Yes
Mar 18, 2021AR00Yes
Dec 18, 2020PA00Yes
Dec 10, 2020CA01Yes
Dec 24, 2019IN00Yes
May 17, 2019TN00Yes