Carrier profile · USDOT 2811914 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

MG Foods of Texas

66 power unitsavg 3.2 yrMulti-region · 14 statesLONGVIEW, TX88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED CONDITIONAL

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 7.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 71 vehicle and 118 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

5.6% · 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 7.7 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 · 12

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
0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 66-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
66
Inspections · 24 mo
118
Annualized
59 / yr
Coverage
0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

15%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
87%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
48%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
75%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
24%
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 Driving37 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance26 · 2 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance17 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 2 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness4 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

49 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 10, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

22ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
2False logs
17Drove over hours

Trending worse — 82% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 14 total · 2 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20242022
20232012
20223003
20211001
20201011
20191111
20184013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 3, 2024WI01Yes
Oct 28, 2024TX01Yes
May 22, 2023MO00Yes
Mar 8, 2023TX01Yes
Dec 7, 2022GA00Yes
Apr 5, 2022KS00Yes
Feb 17, 2022KS00Yes
Feb 17, 2021NC00Yes
Oct 4, 2020TX01Yes
Apr 13, 2019TX11Yes
Oct 24, 2018AR00Yes
Oct 5, 2018FL00Yes
Mar 5, 2018OK00Yes
Mar 4, 2018TX02No