Carrier profile · USDOT 2021314 · MC-862884 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

TARGET ENERGY LLC

28 power unitsavg 10.2 yrMulti-region · 12 statesSHREVEPORT, LA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-862884 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linkstargetenergyllc.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 7.7%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 — 39 vehicle and 56 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

7.7% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 5.0 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

53 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '26 · 7

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
56
Annualized
≈28 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

27%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
57%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
19%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
17%
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 Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 178.345 Other violationOther2 · 0 OOS
  • 383.51 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

12 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 18, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

6ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
5False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 83% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 26 total · 2 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
14
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252012
20231011
20222002
20213013
20202012
20197046
20185134
20171011
20162022
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Sep 5, 2025LA01Yes
Sep 5, 2025LA00Yes
Jul 15, 2023LA01Yes
Mar 31, 2022AR00Yes
Feb 2, 2022KS00Yes
Dec 14, 2021AR00Yes
Sep 6, 2021LA00Yes
Jun 13, 2021LA01Yes
Oct 6, 2020AR00Yes
May 17, 2020LA03Yes
Dec 4, 2019IL00Yes
Nov 21, 2019LA01Yes
Sep 11, 2019TX01No
Jul 12, 2019LA02Yes
Apr 11, 2019AL00Yes
Jan 15, 2019LA00Yes
Jan 8, 2019MS01Yes
Dec 30, 2018LA00Yes
Oct 25, 2018TX02Yes
Jun 26, 2018LA00Yes
Jun 4, 2018IL02Yes
Jan 14, 2018LA21No
Oct 29, 2017LA01Yes
Nov 2, 2016AR01Yes
Jun 13, 2016LA01Yes