Carrier profile · USDOT 3020795 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

BLUE FLAME LLC

20 power unitsavg 10.1 yrMulti-region · 9 statesNEWFIELD, NJ94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNHAZMAT
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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 8.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 99 vehicle and 105 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

14.8% · 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 4.0 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

102 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 8

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
≈2.6 / 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
20
Inspections · 24 mo
105
Annualized
≈53 / yr
Coverage
≈2.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

27%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
6%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
24%
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 Maintenance30 · 3 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving16 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 172.516 Other violationOther7 · 0 OOS
  • 172.202 Other violationOther6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 5 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 177.840 Other violationOther5 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Apr 16, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 4 total · 2 in 24 mo

4
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20251001
20221011
20211011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 28, 2026NJ02Yes
Dec 10, 2025PA00Yes
Feb 9, 2022NJ01Yes
Apr 2, 2021NJ02Yes