KEITH BATCHELOR
DBA BATCHELOR'S TRUCKING
USDOT 1526409MC-Docket MC569410HOUSTON, TX
Review before tenderingHazmat-authorized2 power units
KEITH BATCHELOR (USDOT 1526409) in HOUSTON, 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.
- 1 prior insurance lapse(s) on record, most recent began 2014-07-10 — the carrier let required coverage lapse before.
- Satisfactory safety rating.
- No BASIC alerts in any of the five public SMS categories.
- Vehicle out-of-service rate is above the national roadside average.
- 2 preventable crash(es) in the last 24 months; recordable crash rate 0.
- No fatal crashes in the last 24 months.
- No link to a prior revoked authority.
- Authority involuntarily revoked 12 times, most recent 2020-07-02 — recurring instability (typically insurance-lapse / reinstate cycles).
- FMCSA compliance review on file dated 2009-12-16 (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. The Hazmat Compliance BASIC is also withheld for this hazmat carrier.
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
- Active
- Contract authority
- Not applicable
Safety & BASIC scorecard
BASIC safety measures
Unsafe driving
No alert
measure 0
Hours of service
No alert
measure 0
Driver fitness
No alert
measure 0
Controlled substance
No alert
measure 0
Vehicle maintenance
No alert
measure 17.75
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
2
Crashes
5
Inspections
3
OOS inspections
7
OOS violations
Insurance
- BIPD on file
- $750,000 below $1M baseline
- Cargo insurance
- No
- Bond on file
- No
Fleet
- Power units
- 2
- Total drivers
- 2
- Years in business
- 20
- Hazmat authority
- Yes
Crash risk
- Preventable crashes (24 mo)
- 2 of 2 total crash(es)
- Recordable crash rate
- 0
- Driver OOS rate
- 0%
- Vehicle OOS rate
- 75%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
- 12 times last 2020-07-02
- Physical address
- No address flags
- Federal OOS / safety action
- None on file
- MCS-150 self-report
- 2025-08-01
- Insurance lapse history
- 1 lapse(s) most recent 2014-07-10
- Last compliance review
- 2009-12-16 · C
Inspection history (all-time)
7
Inspections
4
OOS inspections
56
Violations
8
OOS violations
0
Post-accident
Record spans 2023-12-23 → 2026-04-09.
Crash history (last 24 months)
2025-01-29
MS
Tow-away
Violation pattern (all-time, by area)
| Area (49 CFR part) | Violations | Out of service | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
Vehicle parts & maintenance 393
|
37 | 8 | 2026-04-09 |
Unsafe driving 392
|
15 | 0 | 2026-04-09 |
Vehicle inspection & repair 396
|
4 | 0 | 2026-04-09 |
Recent violations (last 24 months, worst first)
| Date | Category | Violation | OOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-09 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative turn signal | OOS |
| 2026-04-09 | Vehicle Maintenance | Oil and/or grease leak | — |
| 2026-02-23 | Vehicle Maintenance | Truck Tractor manufactured on or after March 1 1997 not equipped with an antilock brake system | — |
| 2026-02-23 | Vehicle Maintenance | Operating a CMV without proof of a periodic inspection | — |
| 2026-02-23 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable Required Lamp | — |
| 2026-02-23 | Vehicle Maintenance | Wipers - Inoperative / missing / damaged wipers | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative turn signal | OOS |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Steering system components worn welded or missing | OOS |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | No/improper tractor protection valve | OOS |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Cargo without direct contact not prevented from shifting while in transit | OOS |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Truck Tractor manufactured on or after March 1 1997 not equipped with an antilock brake system | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable Required Lamp | OOS |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Requirements for reflectors | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Improper or no wiring protection as required | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | No Lower rear retroreflective sheeting or reflex reflective materials as required for vehicles manufactured after Decemb | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Side retroreflective sheeting or reflex reflector requirements for vehicles manufactured after December 1993 | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Truck-Tractor lower rear mud flaps retroreflective sheeting / reflex reflective material requirements for vehicles manuf | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Oil and/or grease leak | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Rear Impact Guards Required - trailer manufactured on or after January 26 1998 | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | No/discharged/unsecured fire extinguisher | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Emergency Equipment - Stopped vehicle warning devices missing or improper | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Windshield - Damaged or Discolored | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Windshield - Obstructed | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Wipers - Inoperative / missing / damaged wipers | — |
| 2026-02-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Exhaust - Not securely fastened to the vehicle | — |
| 2026-01-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative turn signal | OOS |
| 2026-01-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Out of Adjustment - Roto Clamp (Short & Long) DD-3 or Bolt | — |
| 2026-01-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | CMV manufactured after 10/19/94 has an automatic airbrake adjustment system that fails to compensate for wear | — |
| 2026-01-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable Required Lamp | — |
| 2026-01-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | Wipers - Inoperative / missing / damaged wipers | — |
Recent inspections (with violations, newest first)
Showing the 7 most-recent inspections that had violations. Clean inspections aren't listed here — they're counted in the all-time inspection totals above.
2026-04-09 6 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2026-02-23 5 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55C1 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 17C | — | — |
2026-02-12 28 viols· 5 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 60C | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 60E-WS | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 95F | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 95A | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 11TL | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 11LR | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 11S | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 28 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 28 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 26 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 106C2 | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 209D | OOS | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 43A | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55C1 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 83H | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 86A1 | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2026-01-30 9 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47E | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 53B | — | — |
2025-08-29 4 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 17C | — | — |
2024-04-17 3 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9(a) | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 205(c) | OOS | — |
2023-12-23 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLTCD | — | — |
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