Carrier profile · USDOT 536694 · MC-358273 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

BROAD & JAMES INC

DBA BROAD & JAMES TOWING

42 power unitsLocal · 2 statesCOLUMBUS, OH88/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-358273 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT

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 0.0%24-mo cumulative

050%

Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 2 vehicle and 5 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

5 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 1

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.

Thin coverage

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.1 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 42-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.

Registered power units: 42
Inspections · 24 mo: 5
Annualized: ≈3 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

.5measure

SMS · per-BASIC

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.

392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 6 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 12 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026	1	0	0	1
2023	1	0	0	1
2018	1	0	1	0
2017	1	0	1	1
2016	1	0	0	1
2014	2	0	2	0
2013	2	0	1	1
2012	1	1	1	1
2011	1	0	1	1
1997	1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Jul 2, 2026	OH	0	0	Yes
Nov 21, 2023	OH	0	0	Yes
Jan 3, 2018	OH	0	1	No
Apr 20, 2017	OH	0	1	Yes
Jun 19, 2016	OH	0	0	Yes
Nov 23, 2014	OH	0	1	No
Aug 19, 2014	OH	0	1	No
Dec 7, 2013	OH	0	0	Yes
Oct 16, 2013	OH	0	1	No
Nov 8, 2012	OH	1	4	Yes
Dec 29, 2011	OH	0	1	Yes
Sep 18, 1997	OH	0	0	Yes