Carrier profile · USDOT 826201 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Chain Electric Co Inc

850 power unitsavg 7.7 yrRegional · 5 statesHATTIESBURG, MS80/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linkschainelectric.comFMCSA SAFER

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 47.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 57 vehicle and 63 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

78.6% · 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 20.5 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

61 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 850-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
850
Inspections · 24 mo
63
Annualized
≈32 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
.02measure
SMS · per-BASIC
66%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
55%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
73%
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 Maintenance32 · 4 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance20 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance18 · 0 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance15 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.130 Cargo securement — heavy vehicles/equipmentVehicle Maintenance8 · 7 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving7 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

7 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 22, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 99 total · 7 in 24 mo

99
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
37
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254014
20245025
20236035
20228036
2021110411
20203012
20195025
20185015
20176035
20165024
20153033
20148027
20134024
20125005
20119039
20091001
20086036
20072012
20062012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 11, 2026MS00Yes
Dec 9, 2025MS00Yes
Aug 11, 2025LA00Yes
Apr 14, 2025MS02Yes
Jan 24, 2025LA00Yes
Oct 10, 2024AL01Yes
Oct 8, 2024MS00Yes
Jul 25, 2024LA01Yes
May 13, 2024MS00Yes
Mar 4, 2024AL00Yes
Dec 1, 2023AR01Yes
Sep 15, 2023LA00Yes
Aug 8, 2023GA00Yes
Aug 3, 2023LA00Yes
Feb 3, 2023TX02Yes
Jan 17, 2023TX01No
Nov 2, 2022TX01No
Jul 1, 2022TX00Yes
Jul 1, 2022TX00Yes
Jul 1, 2022TX00Yes
Jun 22, 2022AL00Yes
Apr 29, 2022LA02Yes
Apr 20, 2022MS00Yes
Mar 9, 2022TX02No
Dec 6, 2021LA00Yes