Carrier profile · USDOT 4102557 · MC-1565239 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

PHOENIX FREIGHT LLC

5 power unitsavg 8.4 yrNational · 29 statesCOLUMBUS, OH80/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1565239 ACTIVERATED 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 53.8%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 8.2%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 39 vehicle and 61 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

72.7% · 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 9.7 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

58 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 6

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

≈6.1 / 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: 5
Inspections · 24 mo: 61
Annualized: ≈31 / yr
Coverage: ≈6.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

99%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

84%

Hours-of-Service

Alert

90%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0measure

SMS · per-BASIC

97%

Vehicle Maintenance

Alert

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 Driving68 · 0 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance29 · 4 OOS
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance28 · 14 OOS
393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving13 · 0 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 4 OOS
395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

38 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 11, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

21ELD device issues

1No log / no ELD

8False logs

4Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 1 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year		Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2025		1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Feb 9, 2025	IL	0	0	Yes