Carrier profile · USDOT 3142937 · MC-100494 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

BM TRANS INC

18 power unitsavg 7.7 yrMulti-region · 11 statesNAPERVILLE, IL94/100
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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 7.1%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 — 14 vehicle and 32 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 12.5 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

28 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 4

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 18-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
18
Inspections · 24 mo
32
Annualized
≈16 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

68%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
55%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
50%
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 Driving18 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

30 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 17, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

25ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 76% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 11 total · 4 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253003
20241001
20231001
20222022
20211011
20202002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 25, 2026IL00Yes
Jul 8, 2025MA00Yes
Jun 18, 2025IL00Yes
Apr 5, 2025OH00Yes
Jun 3, 2024MA00Yes
Jul 28, 2023MA00Yes
Jun 16, 2022NY01Yes
Feb 22, 2022OH01Yes
Oct 30, 2021IN01Yes
Oct 1, 2020IN00Yes
Sep 21, 2020WI00Yes