Carrier profile · USDOT 398426 · MC-498898 · Updated Jun 26, 2026

W L French Excavating Corporation

66 power unitsavg 6.3 yrRegional · 6 statesNORTH BILLERICA, MA87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-498898 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 33.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 3 vehicle and 25 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 5.6 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

23 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 4

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 66-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
66
Inspections · 24 mo
25
Annualized
≈13 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

28%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
.07measure
SMS · per-BASIC
54%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
3measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 46 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 22 total · 3 in 24 mo

22
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20251010
20242012
20233013
20221001
20213013
20201001
20192012
20172012
20152002
20142012
20131010
19971011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 14, 2026MA01Yes
Aug 22, 2025RI01No
Dec 23, 2024MA00Yes
Mar 11, 2024MA01Yes
Oct 10, 2023MA00Yes
Jun 5, 2023MA00Yes
Mar 6, 2023ME01Yes
Dec 20, 2022MA00Yes
Oct 5, 2021MA01Yes
May 10, 2021RI00Yes
Apr 27, 2021NH00Yes
Dec 24, 2020MA00Yes
Apr 6, 2019MA02Yes
Mar 1, 2019MA00Yes
Jul 13, 2017MA01Yes
May 3, 2017MA00Yes
Dec 29, 2015MA00Yes
Dec 28, 2015NH00Yes
Aug 21, 2014MA01Yes
Apr 17, 2014MA00Yes
Dec 20, 2013MA01No
Jul 31, 1997MA01Yes