Carrier profile · USDOT 3028970 · MC-38373 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Bowling Green Logistics USA Inc

5 power unitsavg 8.1 yrMulti-region · 12 statesLAREDO, TX57/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-38373 INACTIVE
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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 22.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 13.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 22 vehicle and 38 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

15.4% · 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 15.2 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

36 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 6

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
≈3.8 / 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
5
Inspections · 24 mo
38
Annualized
≈19 / yr
Coverage
≈3.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

24%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
76%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
75%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
67%
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 Driving23 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 5 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance8 · 5 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

33 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 20, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

18ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
7False logs
6Drove over hours

Trending worse — 56% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 14 total · 1 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20233013
20223123
20214023
20203023
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 9, 2025TX00Yes
Dec 7, 2023CA00Yes
Sep 26, 2023TX00Yes
Jun 24, 2023MO01Yes
Jul 2, 2022NM01Yes
May 30, 2022AR00Yes
Mar 24, 2022TX14Yes
Sep 15, 2021MO00Yes
Jul 27, 2021NJ02No
Jun 5, 2021TX00Yes
Feb 4, 2021AR01Yes
Aug 28, 2020KY01Yes
Aug 11, 2020MD02Yes
Jul 11, 2020TX00Yes