BBBILLY BENDER 74

BILLY BENDER Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 40.0% (24-mo)10 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)11 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%

030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

37.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 24.8 pts across the window — latest above the 22.26% national benchmark.

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 5-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.

Registered power units: 5
Inspections · 24 mo: 11
Annualized: ≈6 / yr
Coverage: ≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

39%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

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 Maintenance10 · 3 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving2
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance2
393.13 Retroreflective sheetingVehicle Maintenance2
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 16 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 11 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2024	1	0	1	0
2023	1	0	0	1
2021	1	0	1	1
2020	1	0	0	1
2019	1	0	0	1
2017	1	1	0	1
2013	1	0	1	0
2010	1	0	0	1
2007	1	0	1	1
2006	1	0	1	1
2003	1	0	1	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
08/26/2024	WV	0	1	No
08/09/2023	WV	0	0	Yes
01/20/2021	KY	0	1	Yes
12/03/2020	WV	0	0	Yes
06/28/2019	WV	0	0	Yes
05/17/2017	OH	1	0	Yes
06/06/2013	WV	0	1	No
11/24/2010	KY	0	0	Yes
12/27/2007	KY	0	1	Yes
11/08/2006	WV	0	1	Yes
10/13/2003	WV	0	2	Yes