Carrier profile · USDOT 1320779 · Updated Jul 26, 2026

Marque's Food Distributors Inc

DBA MARQUE'S FOOD DISTRIBUTORS

28 power unitsavg 3.1 yrRegional · 5 statesHARVEY, LA79/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED CONDITIONAL
Verified linksmarquesfood.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 14.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 28 vehicle and 58 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.2% · 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 4.9 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

58 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 5

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
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 28-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
28
Inspections · 24 mo
58
Annualized
≈29 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

42%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
51%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
15%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
12%
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 Driving13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

7 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 27, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
2False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 12 total · 4 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20252002
20232012
20202012
20181001
20141011
20101001
20091010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 31, 2026LA00Yes
May 1, 2026LA00Yes
Aug 28, 2025LA00Yes
Jul 15, 2025LA00Yes
Jul 8, 2023LA06Yes
May 5, 2023LA00Yes
Oct 22, 2020LA01Yes
May 23, 2020FL00Yes
Nov 19, 2018LA00Yes
Apr 25, 2014LA03Yes
Apr 16, 2010LA00Yes
Nov 5, 2009LA03No