Carrier profile · USDOT 3292769 · MC-1044346 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Columbian Trading Inc

DBA CENTRAL FREIGHT FOOD

36 power unitsavg 4 yrRegional · 7 statesATLANTA, GA76/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1044346 ACTIVERATED CONDITIONAL
Verified linksufsfood.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 10.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 20.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 30 vehicle and 112 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 22.4 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

105 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 11

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
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 36-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
36
Inspections · 24 mo
112
Annualized
≈56 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

61%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
81%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
96%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
26%
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 Driving57 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance34 · 5 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness23 · 13 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance22 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance22 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance19 · 0 OOS
  • 395.32 ELD — non-authenticated drivingHOS Compliance14 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance11 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving10 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

102 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 25, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

53ELD device issues
16No log / no ELD
17False logs
11Drove over hours

Trending worse — 75% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 20 total · 10 in 24 mo

20
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20265015
20254024
20244004
20231011
20221111
20214114
20201011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 7, 2026AL00Yes
May 11, 2026GA00Yes
May 1, 2026GA01Yes
Mar 12, 2026GA00Yes
Feb 4, 2026TN00Yes
Oct 28, 2025GA01Yes
Feb 10, 2025SC00Yes
Jan 22, 2025GA00Yes
Jan 1, 2025SC01Yes
Nov 14, 2024GA00Yes
Aug 1, 2024GA00Yes
Jul 10, 2024GA00Yes
Jan 16, 2024TN00Yes
Apr 1, 2023GA02Yes
Apr 15, 2022GA21Yes
Aug 2, 2021TN00Yes
Jun 22, 2021MS11Yes
Apr 28, 2021MS00Yes
Apr 12, 2021GA00Yes
Nov 1, 2020GA01Yes