Carrier profile · USDOT 3091010 · MC-72367 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

VAL FREIGHT LLC

3 power unitsavg 7 yrNational · 16 statesCHARLOTTE, NC80/100
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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 40.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 25 vehicle and 34 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

42.9% · 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 3.9 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

34 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '25 · 3

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
≈5.7 / 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
3
Inspections · 24 mo
34
Annualized
≈17 / yr
Coverage
≈5.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-08-01

90%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
33%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
77%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
60%
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 Driving10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance9 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.41 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness5 · 2 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

12 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 21, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

10ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.