Carrier profile · USDOT 2521439 · MC-876470 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

J a Carriers LLC

15 power unitsavg 5.1 yrNational · 17 statesSAN JUAN, TX62/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-876470 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 38.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 23.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 71 vehicle and 125 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

52.9% · 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 33.8 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

117 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '25 · 10

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈4.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
15
Inspections · 24 mo
125
Annualized
≈63 / yr
Coverage
≈4.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

51%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
96%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
98%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
81%
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 Driving41 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance40 · 9 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance26 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance25 · 5 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance24 · 9 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance22 · 10 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance19 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness18 · 8 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance17 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness15 · 15 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

113 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 25, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

61ELD device issues
15No log / no ELD
21False logs
14Drove over hours

Trending worse — 85% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 19 total · 5 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253013
20244014
20232002
20221001
20212112
20201011
20182012
20171001
20161001
20152002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Sep 18, 2025AR01Yes
Aug 21, 2025TX00Yes
Feb 27, 2025TX00Yes
Nov 20, 2024TX00Yes
Sep 7, 2024TX01Yes
Jun 3, 2024LA00Yes
Feb 16, 2024IN00Yes
Dec 2, 2023IL00Yes
Aug 30, 2023TX00Yes
Dec 4, 2022TX00Yes
Sep 22, 2021AR02Yes
Jul 24, 2021TX10Yes
Jul 31, 2020IL02Yes
Dec 4, 2018IL01Yes
Sep 2, 2018TX00Yes
Mar 8, 2017IN00Yes
Jun 23, 2016IL00Yes
Jul 8, 2015OH00Yes
May 29, 2015TN00Yes