Carrier profile · USDOT 884298 · MC-409523 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

Houghton Trucking Inc

14 power unitsavg 11.7 yrMulti-region · 10 statesQUARRYVILLE, PA75/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-409523 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 33.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 21.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 3 vehicle and 14 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 33.3 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

14 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 3

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
≈0.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 14-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
14
Inspections · 24 mo
14
Annualized
≈7 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
68%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
66%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
2measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 24 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 13 total · 1 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20242012
20221001
20214014
20202002
20061010
20051001
20021001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 28, 2025PA00Yes
Jul 17, 2024OH04Yes
Jan 16, 2024PA00Yes
Feb 15, 2022MD00Yes
Dec 14, 2021CA01Yes
Oct 13, 2021PA00Yes
Oct 1, 2021DE00Yes
Jan 5, 2021NY00Yes
Sep 18, 2020PA00Yes
Apr 14, 2020MO00Yes
Jan 7, 2006MD01No
Dec 27, 2005VA00Yes
Apr 25, 2002PA00Yes