Carrier profile · USDOT 473665 · MC-492819 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Hurst Towing & Recovery Inc

20 power unitsLocal · 1 statesBIRMINGHAM, AL50/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-492819 ACTIVEHAZMAT

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

Vehicle OOS —24-mo cumulative

050%

Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative

030%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 0 vehicle and 1 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

No roadside inspections on the FMCSA record in this window

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

≈0.0 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 20-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: 20
Inspections · 24 mo: 1
Annualized: ≈1 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving

.25measure

SMS · per-BASIC

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

0violations

clean · 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.

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 Driving2 · 0 OOS
392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 3 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 18 total · 2 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026	2	1	1	2
2024	1	0	0	1
2023	2	0	1	2
2022	2	0	1	2
2021	1	0	0	1
2018	1	0	0	1
2016	1	0	1	0
2015	2	0	1	2
2013	1	0	0	1
2004	1	0	1	1
2002	2	0	1	2
1999	1	0	1	1
1997	1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Apr 3, 2026	AL	0	0	Yes
Jan 10, 2026	GA	1	1	Yes
May 16, 2024	AL	0	0	Yes
Jun 23, 2023	AL	0	0	Yes
Apr 14, 2023	AL	0	2	Yes
Nov 5, 2022	AL	0	4	Yes
Feb 14, 2022	AL	0	0	Yes
Oct 5, 2021	AL	0	0	Yes
Jul 5, 2018	AL	0	0	Yes
Jun 7, 2016	AL	0	2	No
Apr 1, 2015	AL	0	0	Yes
Jan 8, 2015	AL	0	2	Yes
Feb 27, 2013	AL	0	0	Yes
Apr 7, 2004	AL	0	1	Yes
Aug 1, 2002	AL	0	0	Yes
Mar 7, 2002	AL	0	1	Yes
Mar 4, 1999	AL	0	3	Yes
Jun 29, 1997	AL	0	0	Yes