A B J EXPRESS INC
USDOT 956906MC-Docket MC409152DALLAS, TX
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A B J EXPRESS INC (USDOT 956906) in DALLAS, TX — has findings to review before tendering. FMCSA authority, fleet size, BASIC safety measures, crash and inspection history.
- Has active operating authority that's tenderable today (common or contract).
- No pending authority revocation.
- Not under an uncleared federal out-of-service or safety action.
- BIPD on file is $750,000 — below your $1,000,000 floor (federal general-freight minimum is $750,000).
- No cargo insurance on file. Required for many shipper contracts.
- No history of insurance lapses.
- Satisfactory safety rating.
- No BASIC alerts in any of the five public SMS categories.
- Driver and vehicle out-of-service rate is above the national roadside average.
- 3 preventable crash(es) in the last 24 months; recordable crash rate not available.
- No fatal crashes in the last 24 months.
- No link to a prior revoked authority.
- Authority involuntarily revoked 8 times, most recent 2024-04-02 — recurring instability (typically insurance-lapse / reinstate cycles).
- FMCSA compliance review on file dated 2013-07-19 (C).
- Crash Indicator and Hazmat Compliance BASICs are statutorily withheld from public SMS under the FAST Act — their absence is not a clean record; use the crash-risk signals above instead.
Built from FMCSA's public Safety Management System data — guidance, not legal advice. Verify directly with the carrier and your cargo policy before tendering.
Authority
- Common authority
- Not applicable
- Contract authority
- Active
Safety & BASIC scorecard
BASIC safety measures
Unsafe driving
No alert
measure 1.67
Hours of service
No alert
measure 0.9
Driver fitness
No alert
measure 0.46
Controlled substance
No alert
measure 0.38
Vehicle maintenance
No alert
measure 7.24
Under the FAST Act, FMCSA publishes an absolute per-category measure (not a 0–100 percentile) for these five BASICs — the alert flag, not the raw number, is the risk signal. The Crash Indicator and Hazmat Compliance BASICs are statutorily withheld from public view.
Last 24 months
0
Fatalities
0
Injuries
3
Crashes
29
Inspections
7
OOS inspections
10
OOS violations
Insurance
- BIPD on file
- $750,000 below $1M baseline
- Cargo insurance
- No
- Bond on file
- No
Fleet
- Power units
- 14
- Total drivers
- 16
- Years in business
- 25
- Hazmat authority
- No
Crash risk
- Preventable crashes (24 mo)
- 3 of 3 total crash(es)
- Recordable crash rate
- Not available
- Driver OOS rate
- 10.3%Above national
- Vehicle OOS rate
- 31.3%Above national
The official Crash Indicator BASIC is withheld from public SMS under the FAST Act — these derived signals stand in for it; their absence is not a clean record.
Compliance & history
- Reincarnation / chameleon
- No prior revoked authority
- Involuntary revocations
- 8 times last 2024-04-02
- Physical address
- No address flags
- Federal OOS / safety action
- None on file
- MCS-150 self-report
- 2026-04-21
- Insurance lapse history
- No lapses on record
- Last compliance review
- 2013-07-19 · C
Inspection history (all-time)
49
Inspections
15
OOS inspections
107
Violations
22
OOS violations
0
Post-accident
Record spans 2023-06-05 → 2026-05-15.
Crash history (last 24 months)
2024-07-22
AL
Tow-away
2024-07-11
VA
Tow-away
2024-06-12
TX
Tow-away
Violation pattern (all-time, by area)
| Area (49 CFR part) | Violations | Out of service | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
Hours of service 395
|
35 | 6 | 2025-10-02 |
Vehicle parts & maintenance 393
|
28 | 5 | 2025-09-25 |
Unsafe driving 392
|
22 | 4 | 2026-02-17 |
Vehicle inspection & repair 396
|
8 | 2 | 2026-04-07 |
Driver qualifications 391
|
2 | 2 | 2025-01-29 |
Drug & alcohol testing 382
|
1 | 1 | 2024-01-08 |
CDL standards 383
|
1 | 1 | 2025-06-17 |
General safety regulations 390
|
1 | 0 | 2024-07-17 |
Recent violations (last 24 months, worst first)
| Date | Category | Violation | OOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-07 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inspection repair and maintenance of parts and accessories | — |
| 2026-02-17 | Unsafe Driving | Failing to use seat belt while operating a CMV | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Unsafe Driving | Failing to use seat belt while operating a CMV | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Controlled Substances/​Alcohol | Drugs/Other Substances - Operate a CMV while in possession. | OOS |
| 2025-10-02 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (Property) - Failing to have a record of duty status using the method prescribed | OOS |
| 2025-10-02 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 6-10 miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2025-09-25 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tires - All others leaking or inflation less than 50% of the maximum inflation pressure on tire not equipped with ATIS | OOS |
| 2025-09-25 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable head lamps | — |
| 2025-09-25 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brakes (general) Explain: | — |
| 2025-09-25 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Hose or Tubing Chafing and/or Kinking - Connection to Power Unit | — |
| 2025-09-25 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Connections with Leaks Under Vehicle | — |
| 2025-09-25 | Vehicle Maintenance | Frame cracked / loose / sagging / broken | — |
| 2025-09-09 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tire-cut exposing ply and/or belt material | — |
| 2025-09-09 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable head lamps | — |
| 2025-09-09 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable Required Lamp | — |
| 2025-07-17 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Connections with Leaks - Connection to Power Unit | — |
| 2025-07-17 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Out of Adjustment - Roto Clamp (Short & Long) DD-3 or Bolt | — |
| 2025-07-17 | Vehicle Maintenance | CMV manufactured after 10/19/94 has an automatic airbrake adjustment system that fails to compensate for wear | — |
| 2025-07-11 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative turn signal | — |
| 2025-06-17 | Driver Fitness | Driving a CMV while CDL is suspended for a safety-related or unknown reason and in state of driver's license issuance | OOS |
| 2025-06-17 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable Required Lamp | OOS |
| 2025-06-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative turn signal | — |
| 2025-06-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Operating a CMV without proof of a periodic inspection | — |
| 2025-06-02 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driver failed to manually add the trailer number | — |
| 2025-03-03 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | False report of drivers record of duty status | — |
| 2025-03-03 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Drivers record of duty status not current | — |
| 2025-03-03 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driver failed to assume or decline unassigned driving time | — |
| 2025-03-03 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Failing to note malfunction that requires use of paper log | — |
| 2025-03-03 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driver failed to certify the accuracy of the information gathered by the ELD | — |
| 2025-01-29 | Driver Fitness | Medical (Certificate) - Operating a commercial vehicle without corrective lenses or hearing aid as indicated on the driv | OOS |
| 2024-10-10 | Vehicle Maintenance | Hubs - Wheel seal leaking | OOS |
| 2024-10-10 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Hose/tubing damaged or not secured | — |
| 2024-10-10 | Vehicle Maintenance | Frame - Bent cut or notched other than by vehicle manufacturer | — |
| 2024-10-10 | Vehicle Maintenance | Washers - Inoperative washing system. | — |
| 2024-08-29 | Vehicle Maintenance | Flat tire or fabric exposed | OOS |
| 2024-08-06 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driving beyond 11 hour driving limit. (Property Carrying Vehicle) | — |
| 2024-08-06 | Vehicle Maintenance | All Brakes - Insufficient brake lining thickness | OOS |
| 2024-08-06 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake tubing improperly joined or spliced | — |
| 2024-08-06 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake hose or tubing chafing and/or kinking | — |
| 2024-08-06 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inadequate brakes for safe stopping - Brake Lining condition | — |
| 2024-08-06 | Vehicle Maintenance | BRAKES OUT OF SERVICE: The number of defective brakes is equal to or greater than 20 percent of the service brakes on th | OOS |
| 2024-08-06 | Vehicle Maintenance | Hubs - Oil and/or Grease Leaking from hub - inner wheel | — |
| 2024-07-31 | Vehicle Maintenance | Wipers - Inoperative / missing / damaged wipers | — |
| 2024-07-17 | Vehicle Maintenance | Operating a CMV without proof of a periodic inspection | — |
| 2024-06-23 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (Form) - Paper Log/Logging Programs Form and Manner | — |
Recent inspections (with violations, newest first)
Showing the 25 most-recent inspections that had violations. Clean inspections aren't listed here — they're counted in the all-time inspection totals above.
2026-04-07 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 3A1 | — | — |
2026-02-17 3 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 16 | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 17C | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2026-02-12 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 16 | — | — |
2025-12-31 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLIRP | — | — |
2025-10-02 3 viols· 2 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLS2 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 8A1-HOSP | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 4A-DOSP | OOS | — |
2025-09-25 6 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9H | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45B2PC | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75A3-TAOL | OOS | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 3A1B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45DLUV | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 201A | — | — |
2025-07-17 3 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45DLPC | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47E | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 53B | — | — |
2025-07-11 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | — | — |
2025-06-17 3 viols· 2 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDL standards 383 | 51A-SIN | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2025-06-02 3 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 24C2II | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 17C | — | — |
2025-03-03 5 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 8E | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 30B1 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 34A1 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 32B | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 8F01 | — | — |
2025-01-30 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLEWA1 | — | — |
2025-01-29 2 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLIRP | — | — |
| Driver qualifications 391 | 41B10-MC | OOS | — |
2024-10-10 5 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78(a) | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 201(c) | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45(b)(2) | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5(b) | OOS | — |
2024-08-06 10 viols· 2 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45(b)(2) | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45(a) | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47(d) | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47(a) | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47(d) | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5(b) | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47(d) | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45(a) | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 3(a)(1) | OOS | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 3(a)(3)(i) | — | — |
2024-07-31 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78 | — | — |
2024-07-17 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 17(c) | — | — |
| General safety regulations 390 | 19(b)(2) | — | — |
2024-06-23 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 8(a) | — | — |
2024-03-07 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 24 | — | — |
2024-02-19 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9(a) | — | — |
2024-01-08 10 viols· 3 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 22H3-ELDMF | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 24 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 24 | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 4A-DOSP | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 4A-DOSU | OOS | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 22H1-ELDNUM | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 24 | — | — |
| Drug & alcohol testing 382 | 501A-SSF | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLILC | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2 | — | — |
2024-01-04 4 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 22(a) | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 22(b) | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 30(b)(1) | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 32(b) | — | — |
2023-12-04 4 viols· 2 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 4(a) | OOS | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 22(h)(4) | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 8(a)(1) | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75(c) | — | — |
2023-11-28 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 8(f)(1) | — | — |
2023-11-18 2 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 8(a)(1) | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2 | — | — |
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