Carrier profile · USDOT 545551 · MC-243978 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

THE BLM GROUP INC

53 power unitsavg 6.8 yrNational · 31 statesKITCHENER, ON88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-243978 ACTIVEHAZMAT
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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 16.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 60 vehicle and 117 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

38.5% · 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 14.8 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

113 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '26 · 9

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
≈1.1 / 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
117
Annualized
≈59 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

65%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
72%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
38%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
28%
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 Driving62 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance16 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 2 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 7 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

42 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 25, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

30ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
7False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 60% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 173 total · 4 in 24 mo

173
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
4
Fatal
68
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253013
20242002
20232012
20225015
20211001
20203013
20193003
20182002
20172012
20166026
20154014
20142012
20132012
20122011
20115025
20101010
20093013
20084014
20075043
2006110110
20055035
20043022
200310049
2002120511
2001181518
2000131613
1999100610
1998150515
19977136
199610179
19952011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 30, 2025MI01Yes
Mar 27, 2025IN00Yes
Jan 17, 2025IL00Yes
Aug 20, 2024TN00Yes
Jan 17, 2024WA00Yes
Sep 7, 2023CA00Yes
Jun 10, 2023IN02Yes
Dec 23, 2022IL00Yes
Oct 12, 2022MI00Yes
Aug 12, 2022FL01Yes
Apr 13, 2022NC00Yes
Feb 17, 2022OK00Yes
Nov 27, 2021MI00Yes
Dec 12, 2020NE01Yes
Jan 21, 2020CA00Yes
Jan 18, 2020WY00Yes
Dec 14, 2019MI00Yes
Feb 24, 2019NE00Yes
Feb 7, 2019IA00Yes
Jun 25, 2018KS00Yes
Apr 28, 2018WY00Yes
Oct 26, 2017WI01Yes
May 10, 2017IN00Yes
Dec 22, 2016NM00Yes
Nov 7, 2016MO02Yes