Carrier profile · USDOT 135401 · MC-145943 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Billy Barnes Enterprises Inc

252 power unitsavg 8 yrNational · 16 statesFRISCO CITY, AL81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-145943 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksbillybarnes.netFMCSA 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 27.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 180 vehicle and 451 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

26.8% · 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 7.5 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

440 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 32

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
≈0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 252-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
252
Inspections · 24 mo
452
Annualized
≈226 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

38%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
16%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.05measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
68%
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 Driving139 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance108 · 34 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance42 · 29 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance23 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance21 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance16 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance16 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance15 · 1 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance10 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

23 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 25, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

18ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
3False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 323 total · 25 in 24 mo

323
Total crashes
25
In last 24 mo
18
Fatal
142
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20265015
2025123712
2024122512
20239048
2022120812
2021100310
2020172816
20196016
20185025
20176036
20167017
2015140414
20142011
2013100510
20125005
20117257
20109146
20096036
2008122412
2007121512
20068047
2005111611
20042011219
2003120311
2002140713
20017056
20004032
19994034
1998131612
19978056
19965034
19954014
1994161514
19933023
199210027
19912112
19903001
19891000
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 1, 2026MS00Yes
Apr 28, 2026AL00Yes
Mar 9, 2026AL00Yes
Mar 1, 2026AL01Yes
Feb 20, 2026AL00Yes
Nov 11, 2025AL02Yes
Sep 15, 2025AL00Yes
Aug 27, 2025AL01Yes
Aug 25, 2025AL00Yes
Aug 1, 2025AL10Yes
Jul 28, 2025AL01Yes
Jun 9, 2025AL11Yes
Apr 28, 2025AL00Yes
Apr 15, 2025AL01Yes
Feb 17, 2025FL11Yes
Feb 14, 2025FL01Yes
Feb 8, 2025FL00Yes
Nov 14, 2024FL01Yes
Nov 4, 2024TN00Yes
Oct 29, 2024FL01Yes
Oct 23, 2024FL00Yes
Oct 3, 2024MI00Yes
Oct 1, 2024AL11Yes
Sep 11, 2024WI10Yes
Sep 3, 2024AL00Yes