Carrier profile · USDOT 641678 · MC-293620 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Ernst Trucking Inc

DBA BELLBROOK TRANSPORT INC

62 power unitsavg 4 yrLocal · 2 statesVANDALIA, OH88/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-293620 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY

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 6.7%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 3.7%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 15 vehicle and 27 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

9.1% · 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 15.2 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

27 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '25 · 4

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

≈0.2 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 62-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: 62
Inspections · 24 mo: 27
Annualized: ≈14 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

12%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

31%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

12%

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 Driving6 · 0 OOS
395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 1 OOS
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
383.51 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 27, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

3ELD device issues

1No log / no ELD

0False logs

0Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 20 total · 2 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2025	1	0	0	1
2024	1	0	1	0
2023	1	0	1	1
2022	1	0	0	1
2021	1	0	0	1
2020	2	0	0	2
2019	2	0	0	2
2018	1	0	0	1
2017	1	0	1	1
2011	1	0	1	1
2009	2	0	1	2
2008	2	0	2	1
2003	1	0	1	1
2002	1	0	1	0
2001	1	1	0	1
1998	1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
May 7, 2025	OH	0	0	Yes
Oct 25, 2024	OH	0	1	No
Oct 23, 2023	OH	0	1	Yes
Feb 14, 2022	OH	0	0	Yes
Jun 4, 2021	OH	0	0	Yes
Aug 19, 2020	OH	0	0	Yes
Jan 29, 2020	OH	0	0	Yes
Oct 25, 2019	OH	0	0	Yes
Jun 27, 2019	IN	0	0	Yes
Oct 25, 2018	OH	0	0	Yes
Sep 22, 2017	OH	0	1	Yes
Jul 12, 2011	OH	0	1	Yes
Apr 10, 2009	OH	0	0	Yes
Mar 20, 2009	OH	0	2	Yes
May 30, 2008	OH	0	1	No
Jan 2, 2008	OH	0	1	Yes
Oct 23, 2003	OH	0	1	Yes
Feb 26, 2002	OH	0	2	No
Sep 28, 2001	OH	1	0	Yes
Jan 27, 1998	OH	0	0	Yes