Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1059227

BULK FIRST LLC

CLOVERDALE, IN 88

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 16.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 50 vehicle and 65 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

22.7% · 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 3.2 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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 70-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
70
Inspections · 24 mo
65
Annualized
≈33 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

33%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
8%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
43%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
46%
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
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance10 · 6 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance9
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 7 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance4
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 02/16/2026. 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
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 71 total · 7 in 24 mo

71
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
30
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20254124
20242002
20231001
20227027
20212012
20205035
20194024
20185045
20164014
20155015
20143003
20132012
20127047
20115015
20105024
20093013
20072012
20052022
20041011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/31/2026IN00Yes
01/21/2026KY01Yes
09/08/2025IN01Yes
07/17/2025WV10Yes
05/20/2025KY01Yes
04/01/2025KY00Yes
08/15/2024KY00Yes
07/18/2024KY00Yes
09/01/2023KY00Yes
10/31/2022IN00Yes
10/28/2022IN00Yes
10/21/2022IL00Yes
09/09/2022KY00Yes
08/08/2022KY00Yes
06/08/2022KY01Yes
05/13/2022IN01Yes
06/17/2021TN00Yes
04/12/2021KY01Yes
12/11/2020KY00Yes
11/22/2020IN01Yes
10/07/2020TN00Yes
10/01/2020KY02Yes
06/11/2020IN03Yes
10/01/2019KY00Yes
09/23/2019OH01Yes