Carrier profile · USDOT 274033 · Updated Jul 23, 2026

Birmingham Hide & Tallow Company Inc

DBA BHT RESOURCES

83 power unitsavg 9 yrRegional · 6 statesBIRMINGHAM, AL88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY
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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 21.9%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 — 41 vehicle and 75 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

10.0% · 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 22.9 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

71 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 10

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 83-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
83
Inspections · 24 mo
75
Annualized
≈38 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

6%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
2%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance27 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving13 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance8 · 5 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

9 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 14, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
2Drove over hours

1 ELD violation in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 73 total · 3 in 24 mo

73
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
32
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251011
20244004
20232022
20222002
20212012
20206046
20193003
20188156
20171001
20162012
20152012
20143013
20132002
20122002
20112112
20102012
20093023
20083023
20071001
20062012
20056036
20041001
20032012
20021010
20011001
20001011
19993013
19981001
19971011
19951011
19921000
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 17, 2026AL00Yes
Nov 7, 2025AL01Yes
Dec 25, 2024AL00Yes
Jun 13, 2024AL00Yes
Mar 21, 2024TN00Yes
Jan 3, 2024AL00Yes
Jun 10, 2023AL01Yes
Jan 25, 2023AL01Yes
Oct 21, 2022TN00Yes
Apr 7, 2022GA00Yes
Nov 6, 2021AL00Yes
Jul 30, 2021TN02Yes
Aug 26, 2020AL01Yes
Jul 24, 2020AL00Yes
Jul 1, 2020AL01Yes
Apr 22, 2020MS00Yes
Mar 3, 2020FL01Yes
Feb 25, 2020TN02Yes
Nov 29, 2019AL00Yes
Sep 30, 2019AL00Yes
Aug 20, 2019GA00Yes
Sep 17, 2018AL01No
Jul 30, 2018AL01Yes
Jul 5, 2018KY00Yes
Apr 30, 2018GA02Yes