BRUCE HOWARD CONTRACTING INC
FMCSA Live Status
Fleet & equipment
- Power units
- 40
- Drivers · CDL
- 36 · 30
- Annual miles
- 80k unreliable
| Type | Own | Term | Trip | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trucks | 28 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| Tractors | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Trailers | 42 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
Registration
- Cargo Operation
- Interstate
- Scope
- Interstate (Within 100 miles), Intrastate (Within 100 miles)
- Registered
- 01-29-2010 (16 yrs)
- MCS-150 Update
- 04-16-2026
- FRED Score Date
- Nov 08, 2026
- Officer
- BETTY HOWARD
- Officer
- BRUCE HOWARD
Cargo
- High-Risk Cargo
- Motor Vehicles, Machinery Large
Estimated from the commodity types reported to FMCSA, not from loss history or the true cargo mix.
MCS-150 annual mileage appears too low for fleet size given observed activity. The per-100k-mile rate benchmarks on this page are excluded; the FRED grade does not use mileage (crash exposure is power-unit-years, violation exposure is inspection counts).
Expected crash rate is probably higher than similar fleets (about an 80% chance), but the record is too thin to say by how much.
Similar fleets: interstate fleets of 20–49 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.
Per truck, fleets like this one are expected to crash about 0.7× as often as the median active fleet of 20–49 trucks.
Worth a closer look
From the FMCSA record. The grade already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are not in it.
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Injury crashes1 crash with 2 people hurt in 24 months.Ask: claim status and driver history for these crashes.
- Driver out-of-service rate 0.0% vs 6.7% national.
- No FMCSA BASIC alerts.
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Unreliable reported mileageThe motor carrier's self-reported annual mileage (MCS-150) looks implausible, so exposure- and mileage-based figures may be distorted.
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Estimated mileageNo usable mileage was reported, so exposure was estimated from similar motor carriers. Mileage-based metrics here are approximate.
Track record
Inspected less often than interstate fleets of 20–49 trucks in Virginia (about 34 in 24 months would be typical).
| This motor carrier | Peers | |
|---|---|---|
| Crashes | 0.062 | 0.029 |
| Inspections | 0.26 | 1.12 |
| Violations | 0.11 | 0.78 |
| Critical violations | 0.00 | 0.15 |
Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: interstate fleets, 20–49 power units, medium-risk cargo.
What they get cited for
9 violations · 24 months-
Vehicle maintenance No alert9 · 0 OOSBrakes 5 · Lights 1 · Other parts 3
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Unsafe driving No alert0
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Hours of service No alert0
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Driver fitness No alert0
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Drugs & alcohol No alert0
Violations by quarter
Tap a category to show or hide itCrashes
24 months-
Mar172026VirginiaProperty damage onlyDaylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.
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Feb52026VirginiaProperty damage onlyDaylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median. Citation issued.
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Nov182025North CarolinaInjury · 2 people hurtDaylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.
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Jul142025VirginiaProperty damage onlyDaylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.
1 of the 4 crashes hurt someone but killed no one.
Insurance filed with FMCSA
No MC, FF or MX docket on FMCSA's registration for this motor carrier, so there are no insurance filings to show. FMCSA collects filings only from registered for-hire authorities; other motor carriers keep proof of insurance (MCS-90) at their place of business.
FMCSA filings only, not a policy audit. Not part of the FRED grade. Wrong or out of date?
Where it happens
- Virginia (HQ) 16
- North Carolina 1
How this grade is calculated
The model, its inputs, the window it scored and its confidence. For actuaries and anyone checking the work.
Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook
The FRED Score predicts this motor carrier's crash risk over the next 12 months — how often they're likely to crash and how severe those crashes tend to be — versus a typical fleet of its size (40 power units: 40 filed, 12 seen roadside in 24 months).
We'd expect a typical fleet of 40 power units this active to have about 0.9 crashes a year. This motor carrier recorded 7 in its scoring window (Oct 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026, about 2.3 a year) — about 2.6× a typical fleet. Factoring in its inspection and violation record inside that window and the credibility of its own experience, the model projects about 1.4 over the next 12 — about 1.5× the typical fleet. When this motor carrier does crash, those crashes tend to be substantially more severe than average — roughly 3.3× the injury/fatal weight of a typical crash.
- 4 inspections with no out-of-service result
FRED multiplies three factors: the class rate a fleet of this size, class and activity is expected to run, a violation relativity from its roadside record, and its own crash experience over 36 months weighted by how much exposure stands behind it. The grade is the band of the resulting relativity to class, then the screens.
FMCSA records
BASIC measures and every inspection, violation and crash, sortable and filterable.
FMCSA BASIC Scores
AB Property| BASIC | Insp w/ Viol | Measure | Alert |
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| Unsafe Driving | 0 | 0.00 | |
| HOS Compliance | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Driver Fitness | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Controlled Substances | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Vehicle Maintenance | 5 | 5.53 |
SMS record data is sourced from FMCSA's Safety Measurement System (02-DEC-24 – 31-MAR-25) and may cover a different time window than the scoring window used for the FRED grade (Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026). Counts here may differ from the grade's in-window counts.