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DOT #4350019 · TIDWELL TRANSPORTS & LOGISTICS LLC

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TIDWELL TRANSPORTS & LOGISTICS LLC

DOT# 4350019 MC# 1700726 Lufkin, TX Authorized For-Hire

(936) 955-0413 tidwellashley72@gmail.com 905 Hylane St, Lufkin TX 75904

1 power units · all owned 2 drivers

Not enough record

Graded once the record supports it

1 yr history · 14 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units: 1
Drivers · CDL: 2 · 0
Annual miles: 1 unreliable

Type	Own	Total
Trucks	1	1
Tractors	0	0
Trailers	0	0

Registration

Registered: 01-22-2025 (1 yr)
MCS-150 Update: 02-12-2026
FRED Score Date: Nov 07, 2026
Officer: WILLIAM TIDWELL

Cargo

64.0

medium risk

General Freight

High-Risk Cargo: General Freight

Note: "General Freight" is a catch-all; the actual cargo mix and its risk may differ.

Estimated from the commodity types reported to FMCSA, not from loss history or the true cargo mix.

Advisory Grade — Outside the Ranked Book

Fleets under 10 power units are graded against their size cohort (pu6_9) for reference, but sit outside the 10+ power-unit underwriting book the FRED rank covers.

Mileage Unreliable

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).

Not enough record to grade yet.

14 inspections and 1 crash on the FMCSA record in 24 months fit anything from an Excellent fleet to a Poor one.

Similar fleets: for-hire fleets of 6–9 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

80% likely range 0.35×–2.17×

ExcellentStrongSatisf.SatisfactoryMarginalPoorCritical

▲ Similar fleets 1.0×

Expected crashes, next 12 months

0.3 vs 0.3 for similar fleets

Likely 0–1 crashes

This motor carrier

0.3

Similar fleets

0.3

A record this thin can't pin that down: about a 1-in-4 chance it runs at Poor-level crash rates.

Ask

Loss runs for the last 3 years, and confirm the fleet is operating at its filed size (1 power unit).

What the record shows

Crash history

betterworse

Too little record to tell. 1 fatal crash (1 death) on the FMCSA record in 24 months (about 0.5 a year); similar fleets have about 0.3 a year.

Roadside inspections

betterworse

Better than peers. Unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 0.71× and violations 0.80× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate -4%. It's inspected more often than most fleets its size.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The estimate already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are context only.

Fatal crash

1 crash with 1 fatality in 24 months (most recent Sep 26, 2025).

Ask: the accident register and loss runs for these crashes.
Lapse in liability filings

255 days without a liability filing on FMCSA's record (May 8, 2025 – Jan 18, 2026) while the authority required one. A filing received later can be back-dated and close a lapse. Not in the grade.

Ask: what covered the fleet during the gap.
Drivers put out of service

2 out-of-service violations against drivers: 1 no valid CDL, 1 hours of service (Oct 2025 – Jul 2026).

Ask: driver supervision and dispatch practices.

Strengths

No FMCSA BASIC alerts.

Data flags

Unreliable reported mileage
The motor carrier's self-reported annual mileage (MCS-150) looks implausible, so exposure- and mileage-based figures may be distorted.
Unusual inspection rate
Inspections per truck fall outside the normal range (1st–99th percentile), which can point to a mis-reported fleet size or data issues.

Track record

FMCSA record, Mar 2025 – Jul 2026 · grade scored on Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026

Crashes

1 fatality · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways

Inspections

36% clean (no violations)

Vehicle out-of-service

16.7%

2 of 12

National avg 22.3%

Driver out-of-service

14.3%

2 of 14

National avg 6.7%

Violations

4 out-of-service

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order

vs 39,348 peer fleets

Inspections per power unit look like an outlier vs peers; read these rates with care.

	This motor carrier	Peers
Crashes	0.556	0.046
Inspections	8.89	1.94
Violations	7.78	1.82
Critical violations	1.67	0.34

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: Owner-Operator power units, medium-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

14 violations · 24 months

Vehicle maintenance No alert

11 · 2 OOS

Lights 3 · Cargo securement 2 · Wheels & hubs 2 · Brakes 1 · Tires 1 · 2 more
Hours of service No alert

2 · 1 OOS

Logbook / ELD paperwork 1 · Over hours limit 1
Driver fitness No alert

1 · 1 OOS

No valid CDL 1
Unsafe driving No alert

0
Drugs & alcohol No alert

0

Out-of-service violations “No alert” = under FMCSA's BASIC intervention threshold

Violations by quarter

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No violation trend data

Crashes

24 months

Sep

26

2025

Louisiana
Fatal · 1 death
Dark - not lighted, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median. FMCSA: not preventable.

In the news
DeQuincy man killed in deadly three-vehicle crash in Allen Parish
KPLC · Sep 27, 2025

Why this link: FMCSA crash report LA2025131481 (LSP (TROOP D)) lists TIDWELL TRANSPORTS & LOGISTICS LLC’s truck in this crash. This third-party news report covers a crash with the same date, place and number of deaths, matched automatically. It may not name TIDWELL TRANSPORTS & LOGISTICS LLC and doesn't establish fault. Wrong article?

About “In the news”: these links go to third-party news reports that FRED Score matched automatically to FMCSA crash records — same date and place, with a truck or bus involved, and the same number of deaths or, for a crash that released hazardous materials, the release — and checked a second time before showing. A link doesn't mean this motor carrier caused the crash: FMCSA crash reports don't assign fault, and news coverage can be incomplete or wrong. FRED Score doesn't verify or endorse what the articles say.

No other reportable crashes on the FMCSA record.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

FMCSA record through May 14, 2026 · no change recorded by FMCSA since

Today · live FMCSA check

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Last on FMCSA's record (May 14, 2026): $750,000 · HIGHLANDER SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
on record since Jan 18, 2026 · FMCSA minimum $750,000
Cargo filing: not required by FMCSA (household-goods motor carriers only); the cargo policy is not on FMCSA's record

36 months to May 14, 2026

3 liability insurers on FMCSA's record, 3 changes: PROGRESSIVE COUNTY MUTUAL → HIGHLANDER SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY (Jan 2026); SOUTHWIND RISK RETENTION GROUP INC → PROGRESSIVE COUNTY MUTUAL (May 2025); PROGRESSIVE COUNTY MUTUAL → SOUTHWIND RISK RETENTION GROUP INC (Apr 2025)
2 cancellation notices filed by insurers; 1 took effect (the last May 8, 2025, replaced 255 days later); 1 replaced before it took effect
255 days without a liability filing (May 8, 2025 – Jan 18, 2026) while the authority required one; a later back-dated filing can close a lapse

Authority

FMCSA notice resolved in time: 1

Operating authority active (FMCSA's L&I record of May 14, 2026, status since May 13, 2025)

Who insures fleets like this →

FMCSA filings only, not a policy audit. Not part of the FRED grade. Wrong or out of date?

Every insurance filing on the FMCSA record

4 filings and 2 authority events since 2025 · FMCSA record through May 14, 2026

Newest first. Insurer names as filed. FMCSA does not publish why a filing was cancelled.

Jan 18, 2026

HIGHLANDER SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY

Liability · $750,000 · on file

L&I to May 14, 2026
May 5, 2025

PROGRESSIVE COUNTY MUTUAL

Liability · $750,000 · ended May 8, 2025 · cancellation notice took effect

L&I to May 14, 2026
May 5, 2025

FMCSA revocation notice for the operating authority, dropped May 13, 2025

opened after PROGRESSIVE COUNTY MUTUAL filed a cancellation notice (effective May 5, 2025)

L&I to May 14, 2026
Apr 3, 2025

SOUTHWIND RISK RETENTION GROUP INC (risk retention group)

Liability · $750,000 · ended May 5, 2025 · replaced by another insurer

1 month in force

L&I to May 14, 2026
Mar 6, 2025

Operating authority granted

L&I to May 14, 2026
Feb 28, 2025

PROGRESSIVE COUNTY MUTUAL

Liability · $750,000 · ended Apr 3, 2025 · replaced by another insurer

a cancellation notice effective May 5, 2025 came after the replacement; 1 month in force

L&I to May 14, 2026

What the terms mean

Liability filing (BIPD):: The insurer's certificate (form BMC-91 or 91X) that the motor carrier carries bodily-injury and property-damage liability at or above FMCSA's minimum. A BMC-82 is the same promise made by a surety bond.
FMCSA minimum:: $750,000 for general freight in vehicles of 10,001 lb or more; $300,000 under 10,001 lb; $1,000,000 for oil and some hazardous materials; $5,000,000 for bulk hazardous materials (49 CFR 387.9).
Primary / excess:: An excess filing sits on top of a primary one; together they make the total filed limit.
Replaced:: A new filing took over from this one. Replaced the same day is an ordinary change of insurer or renewal.
Cancellation notice:: Form BMC-35 (insurance) or BMC-36 (bond): the insurer tells FMCSA the filing ends in 30 days. The insurer files it whether the insurer or the motor carrier ended the policy; FMCSA does not publish the reason.
Cancellation processed by FMCSA:: FMCSA itself ended the filing, for example when the authority was revoked.
Lapse:: Time with no liability filing on FMCSA's record while the authority required one. A filing received later can be back-dated, which closes a lapse after the fact.
Suspended for insurance:: FMCSA suspended the operating authority because no filing meeting the minimum was on file. FMCSA's records state this reason only since May 14, 2026; before then they show a revocation notice without a cause.
FMCSA notice resolved in time:: Before May 14, 2026, FMCSA served a revocation notice when a required filing lapsed and dropped it when the filing was restored. The notice does not say which filing lapsed.
Suspension notice:: Since May 14, 2026, FMCSA serves a notice that the authority will be suspended on a date unless the missing filing is restored. The notice does not say which filing.
Cargo filing:: Form BMC-34. FMCSA has required it only of household-goods motor carriers and forwarders since 2011, so most motor carriers' cargo policies are not on FMCSA's record.
Broker bond / trust fund:: Form BMC-84 (surety bond) or BMC-85 (trust fund): the $75,000 security a broker or freight forwarder must keep on file.
Self-insurance authority:: FMCSA lets a few large motor carriers carry their own liability; it appears as a filing by "Self-Insured".
Risk retention group:: An insurer owned by its policyholders (often trucking groups). It is not covered by state insurance guaranty funds.
FMCSA record through:: The date of the FMCSA file this section was built from. Dockets FMCSA's new system has not yet published are shown from the legacy record, frozen on May 14, 2026.

FMCSA's record of the insurance filed for this motor carrier's operating authority (forms BMC-91/91X liability, BMC-34 cargo, BMC-84/85 broker bond or trust), not the motor carrier's full insurance program. Only for-hire motor carriers with operating authority file with FMCSA; private and intrastate-only motor carriers keep proof of insurance at their place of business, so no filing does not mean no insurance. A filed limit is the amount the insurer certified to FMCSA, which can be below the policy's full limits; cargo and bond filings are shown as on file or not because FMCSA records the federal minimum rather than the policy amount. FMCSA's new registration system (May 14, 2026) publishes a partial set of dockets; a docket not yet in it is shown from the legacy record, frozen on that date, and the live check above is today's reading. Not part of the FRED grade. Wrong or out of date?

Where it happens

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Inspections by state

New Mexico 4
Texas (HQ) 2
Arkansas 1
Arizona 1
Colorado 1
Florida 1
Iowa 1
Louisiana 1

How the estimate 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 (7 power units: 1 filed, 7 seen roadside in 24 months).

Crash Outlook vs Peer Fleet

crashes per year · same scale

Average peer fleet

0.3

Actual, per year in window

0.3

Projected, next 12 mo

0.3

0 0.25 0.5

We'd expect a typical fleet of 7 power units this active to have about 0.3 crashes a year (sized from the 7 units seen roadside; 1 filed). This motor carrier recorded 1 in its scoring window (Sep 1, 2023 → Aug 31, 2026, about 0.3 a year) — about 1.3× a typical fleet. Factoring in its inspection and violation record inside that window and the credibility of its own experience, the model projects about 0.3 over the next 12 — about 1.2× 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.

Fatal-crash risk: less than a 1% chance in the next 12 months

Modeled fatal-crash rate is about typical for similar fleets (likelihood of at least one fatal crash, from its exposure and safety profile).

Track Record Used

Crashes Sep 1, 2023 → Aug 31, 2026 · inspections Oct 1, 2024 → Sep 30, 2026 · data as of Oct 29, 2026

Inside that window: 14 inspections and 1 crash.

Why there is no grade. Every grade but Satisfactory needs at least a 60% posterior past its cut; Satisfactory is what is left when none passes. Here the 80% likely range (0.35×–2.17×) still runs from below the Excellent cut (0.60×) to above the Poor cut (1.57×), so the record can't separate a best-in-class fleet from a poor one and the page shows no grade and no FRED Score. The forecasts are unchanged: in backtests, records this thin crash at their forecast on average but scatter about 2.6× as widely around it as records that support a Satisfactory grade.

Confidence: Low · Z = 0.15

Satisfactory — 1.15x its class rate (cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11). Class rate 0.037 crashes per power-unit-year for a 7-unit for-hire fleet (pu6_9). Violations 0.96x (driver behaviour 0.71x, out-of-service 1.24x, all violations 0.80x; 14 inspections). Experience 1.20x: 0.7 decayed crashes against 0.3 expected over 36 months (credibility 0.15, a 1.68). 80% range 0.35–2.17x. Fleet sized at 7 units from roadside VINs (1 filed). Last change: no change since the last run.

No change since the previous weekly run.

Scoring flags MCS-150 mileage unreliable (mileage is not in the grade) Thin record (low credibility: little exposure behind the grade) (informational — no grade effect)

What Drives This Score

1.00× = this motor carrier's class rate

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.

Class rate

3.7 crashes per 100 power-unit-years

7 power units (1 filed, 7 seen roadside) · 0.26 expected crashes a year

Violation relativity

0.96×

14 inspections in window

Crash experience

1.20×

0.7 decayed crashes vs 0.3 expected · credibility 0.15

Driver behaviour

0.71×

Out-of-service rate

1.24×

All violations

0.80×

0×1× class2×+

Each sub-relativity is shrunk toward its cohort rate when the record is thin (Bühlmann credibility), so a short record reads close to 1.00×.

Relativity to class 1.15× (80% range 0.35–2.17×) · band Marginal → displayed Satisfactory · cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11, Critical above

Full methodology · Scoring white paper · Validation study

FMCSA records

BASIC measures and every inspection, violation and crash, sortable and filterable.

FMCSA BASIC Scores

AB Property

Total Inspections

Driver Insp

Driver OOS

Vehicle Insp

Vehicle OOS

BASIC	Insp w/ Viol	Measure
Unsafe Driving	0	0.00
HOS Compliance	2	1.16
Driver Fitness	1	0.80
Controlled Substances	0	0.00
Vehicle Maintenance	7	3.63

SMS record data is sourced from FMCSA's Safety Measurement System (02-JUL-25 – 23-OCT-25) and may cover a different time window than the scoring window used for the FRED grade (Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026). Counts here may differ from the grade's in-window counts.

TIDWELL TRANSPORTS & LOGISTICS LLC

Fleet & equipment

Registration

Cargo

Worth a closer look

Track record

What they get cited for

Violations by quarter

Crashes

Insurance filed with FMCSA

Where it happens

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

FMCSA BASIC Scores

FMCSA Inspection Records

FMCSA Crash Records

FMCSA Violation Records

TIDWELL TRANSPORTS & LOGISTICS LLC

FMCSA Live Status

Fleet & equipment

Registration

Cargo

Worth a closer look

Track record

What they get cited for

Violations by quarter

Crashes

Insurance filed with FMCSA

Where it happens

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

FMCSA BASIC Scores

FMCSA Inspection Records

FMCSA Crash Records

FMCSA Violation Records