Carrier profile · USDOT 976594 · MC-444749 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Douglas E Barnes Transport Inc

24 power unitsavg 11.8 yrRegional · 3 statesSTANFIELD, NC80/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-444749 ACTIVEHAZMAT
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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 50.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 12 vehicle and 34 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

50.0% · 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 27.6 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

33 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '26 · 5

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
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 24-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
24
Inspections · 24 mo
34
Annualized
≈17 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

51%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
33%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
47%
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 Driving21 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 8 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Aug 9, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 24 total · 1 in 24 mo

24
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20241001
20233033
20221011
20213023
20202012
20194004
20185033
20172002
20141001
20091011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 21, 2025SC01Yes
Apr 2, 2024NC00Yes
Sep 8, 2023NC01Yes
Jun 28, 2023SC01Yes
Jan 13, 2023SC01Yes
Apr 11, 2022NC01Yes
Sep 22, 2021NC00Yes
May 10, 2021NC01Yes
Apr 1, 2021NC01Yes
Oct 2, 2020NC00Yes
Jul 14, 2020NC01Yes
Dec 17, 2019NC00Yes
Aug 21, 2019NC00Yes
Mar 14, 2019NC00Yes
Feb 19, 2019NC00Yes
Dec 4, 2018SC01Yes
Sep 4, 2018SC00Yes
Mar 15, 2018SC01No
Feb 15, 2018NC00Yes
Feb 7, 2018NC01No
Dec 18, 2017SC00Yes
Jun 21, 2017NC00Yes
Oct 30, 2014NC00Yes
Mar 16, 2009NC04Yes