Carrier profile · USDOT 1266394 · MC-495127 · Updated Aug 2, 2026

James R Bailey Hauling LLC

53 power unitsavg 3 yrMulti-region · 13 statesORANGE, VA87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-495127 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 31.0%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 — 58 vehicle and 110 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

24.1% · 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 1.6 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

120 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 25

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 53-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
53
Inspections · 24 mo
123
Annualized
≈62 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

91%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
72%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
33%
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 Driving49 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 4 OOS
  • 393.118 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 9 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

21 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 9, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
13Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 42 total · 9 in 24 mo

42
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20265025
20252012
20244014
2023100110
20224024
20217027
20204004
20192002
20183003
20171011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 1, 2026MD01Yes
Apr 1, 2026VA00Yes
Apr 1, 2026PA00Yes
Feb 6, 2026VA01Yes
Jan 13, 2026PA00Yes
Oct 10, 2025VA01Yes
Jul 3, 2025VA00Yes
Aug 27, 2024NJ00Yes
Aug 22, 2024NC01Yes
Jul 15, 2024VA00Yes
Jun 21, 2024VA00Yes
Nov 20, 2023MD00Yes
Sep 20, 2023VA01Yes
Sep 1, 2023VA00Yes
Aug 22, 2023VA00Yes
Jul 26, 2023MD00Yes
May 26, 2023DE00Yes
May 4, 2023MD00Yes
Feb 17, 2023VA00Yes
Feb 16, 2023NC00Yes
Feb 8, 2023DE00Yes
Dec 7, 2022VA00Yes
Oct 25, 2022VA01Yes
Mar 30, 2022NC00Yes
Mar 29, 2022VA01Yes