Carrier profile · USDOT 1708667 · Updated Jul 24, 2026

Houser Farms Inc

66 power unitsavg 7.2 yrMulti-region · 8 statesHIDDENITE, NC94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkshouserfarmsinc.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 20.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 39 vehicle and 75 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

60.0% · 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 34.4 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

73 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 7

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
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 66-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
66
Inspections · 24 mo
75
Annualized
≈38 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

77%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
57%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
9%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
30%
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 Driving36 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

11 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 16, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
6False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 31 total · 4 in 24 mo

31
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20252012
20241011
20231011
20223022
20214014
20204024
20192012
20181001
20171001
20163003
20154024
20141011
20101011
20091011
20081010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 27, 2026NC03Yes
Aug 15, 2025NC00Yes
Jul 20, 2025NC02Yes
Aug 23, 2024VA02Yes
Jan 1, 2023NC01Yes
Aug 24, 2022NC05Yes
Apr 25, 2022VA01No
Jan 18, 2022VA00Yes
Dec 9, 2021NC01Yes
Aug 29, 2021DE00Yes
Apr 20, 2021NC00Yes
Apr 15, 2021MD00Yes
Dec 8, 2020NC00Yes
Aug 6, 2020NC00Yes
Jul 6, 2020VA05Yes
Jul 3, 2020NC01Yes
Jun 17, 2019VA02Yes
Apr 19, 2019NC00Yes
Nov 9, 2018NC00Yes
Dec 8, 2017NC00Yes
Jul 6, 2016NC00Yes
May 18, 2016MD00Yes
Apr 22, 2016NC00Yes
Aug 5, 2015NC01Yes
Jul 6, 2015NC01Yes