Carrier profile · USDOT 1873432 · MC-676488 · Updated Jul 29, 2026

Crane Cartage LLC

DBA CRANE CARTAGE FREIGHT SERVICES

324 power unitsavg 7.6 yrNational · 37 statesHOUSTON, TX88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-676488 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkscranefreight.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 20.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 184 vehicle and 282 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12.2% · 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 1.8 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

271 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 22

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 324-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
324
Inspections · 24 mo
288
Annualized
≈144 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
44%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
28%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
63%
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 Driving98 · 3 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance59 · 14 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance36 · 31 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance24 · 5 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance14 · 6 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

36 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 18, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

24ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
8False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 54% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 179 total · 12 in 24 mo

179
Total crashes
12
In last 24 mo
5
Fatal
62
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264014
20256126
20247026
2023150613
2022110311
2021110411
2020150215
2019160515
2018131612
2017140414
2016160415
2015182818
2014120412
20139129
20124033
20115043
20103022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 12, 2026TX01Yes
Apr 30, 2026FL00Yes
Feb 12, 2026TX00Yes
Jan 9, 2026OH00Yes
Dec 8, 2025IN00Yes
Aug 19, 2025OH00Yes
Aug 16, 2025TX10Yes
Jun 17, 2025TX00Yes
May 27, 2025CA01Yes
Mar 25, 2025NM01Yes
Oct 30, 2024WY01Yes
Oct 1, 2024GA00Yes
Aug 10, 2024GA00Yes
Jun 23, 2024VA01No
Mar 27, 2024OH00Yes
Mar 26, 2024GA00Yes
Feb 23, 2024TX00Yes
Nov 29, 2023IN01Yes
Oct 30, 2023TX01Yes
Oct 14, 2023TN00Yes
Aug 17, 2023TX01Yes
Aug 16, 2023MO01No
Jul 27, 2023MD01Yes
Jul 26, 2023AR00Yes
Jul 24, 2023OH00Yes