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SAM HOUSTON TRUCKLINES LLC

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Company CheckSAM HOUSTON TRUCKLINES LLC · DOT 3091615

6209 BUCK BLVD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN, 46237

DOT# 3091615 MC# 71888 Indianapolis, Indiana 8 years

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Power Units

Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

$750,000

Insurance

Not Rated

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Public record

6 events tracked · latest Oct 30, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Safety & compliance 5

Aug 23, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Aug 11, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 out-of-service violation.
Jul 10, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 violation (no OOS).
Jul 10, 2026
Crash reported (no fatalities).
Jul 8, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 out-of-service violation.

Insurance 1

Current
Active insurance on file ($750,000).

Public FMCSA record · blue clean · orange change · red risk.

Contact Details

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Physical Address6209 BUCK BLVD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN, 46237

Mailing Address6209 BUCK BLVD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN, 46237

Operating Authorities

Authority TypeAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

DocketMC071888

CommonActive

ContractNot Active

BrokerNot Active

Operating8 years

Operation Classification

Authorized For Hire

SMS BASIC Scores

FMCSA safety categories, last 24 months. Above Cutoff = FMCSA flags a problem · Below cutoff = within limits · Clean = no violations.

Unsafe Driving

measure 4.46 · 3 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Hours-of-Service Compliance

measure 1.02 · 6 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Driver Fitness

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Controlled Substances / Alcohol

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Vehicle Maintenance

measure 9.96 · 12 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage479,749 miles

Mileage Year2024

VMT SourceMCS-150 Form

Drivers

Interstate

Intrastate

CDL

Total

Interstate >100mi0

Interstate <100mi0

Intrastate >100mi0

Intrastate <100mi0

Safety Summary

Safety RatingNot Rated

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Driver OOS3.8% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS18.8% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Insurance

Amount$750,000

Type91X

VerifiedFMCSA · 07/02/2026

CompanyPROGRESSIVE SOUTHEASTERN INSURANCE COMPANY

Policy #CA864869485

Last checked10/30/2026

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypeCarrier

Fleet5 units

Drivers5

Mileage479,749 mi

Operating8 years

MCS-15006/2025

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)0

Fatal0

Injury0

Tow-Away0

Driver Inspections

Total26

Out of Service1

OOS Rate3.8%

National Avg5.5%

Below National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total16

Out of Service3

OOS Rate18.8%

National Avg20.7%

Below National Average

Safety Trends by Year

Roadside inspections and crashes on file, year over year. The red portion of each inspection bar is the out-of-service share; ▲/▼ compares to the prior year.

Inspections · red = OOS

2024

8 · 2 OOS -

2025

17 · 2 OOS =

2026

8 · 3 OOS ▲

Crashes

2024

0 crashes -

2025

0 crashes =

2026

1 crash ▲

Based on FMCSA crash and roadside inspection records (rolling 3-year window). The latest year may be partial.

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Live FMCSA roadside inspections through Aug 2026, 27 inspections, 6 resulted in out-of-service (22.2% OOS rate).

Driver Out-of-Service 1 OOS

Vehicle Out-of-Service 6 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Crash Records (1)

Full crash history on file (all years), newest first. This list may show more than the headline Crashes figure above, because that figure follows the official FMCSA 24-month SMS window used for the Trust Score, older crashes still appear here for transparency.

Date	Location	State	Fatal	Injuries	Tow	Vehicles	Weather	Road	Light
07/10/2026	Not Reported	CO	0	0	1	1	Clear	Dry	Daylight

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

60 roadside violations across 27 inspections, grouped into FMCSA safety-behavior categories. The shaded portion shows how many were serious enough to result in an out-of-service order.

ViolationsOut-of-service

Vehicle Maintenance 32 violations · 6 OOS

Hours-of-Service (HOS) Compliance 15 violations · 1 OOS

Unsafe Driving 13 violations · 0 OOS

Categories follow FMCSR violation parts (Part 393/396 = Vehicle Maintenance, Part 395 = HOS; "Other" = general/administrative parts such as 390). Raw violation counts and out-of-service results, not FMCSA percentile rankings, which are not published for property carriers.

Inspection Records (33)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Driver OOS	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
08/23/2026	AR	Driver-Only (Level III)	ARKADELPHIA AR	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/11/2026	MN	Full (Level I)	WEST LAKELAND MN	7	1	1	0	6	1	-	▲Detail
07/10/2026	CO	Driver-Only (Level III)	VAIL CO	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/08/2026	MO	Walk-Around (Level II)	MAYVIEW MO	2	1	0	0	2	1	-	▲Detail
05/27/2026	KS	Walk-Around (Level II)	NEWTON KS	10	0	7	0	3	0	-	▲Detail
03/18/2026	CA	Full (Level I)	MT. PASS IF	7	0	2	0	5	0	-	▲Detail
02/11/2026	WY	Walk-Around (Level II)	SINCLAIR	3	1	1	1	2	0	-	▲Detail
01/25/2026	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	GALLUP PORT OF ENTRY	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/06/2025	NM	Walk-Around (Level II)	OROGRANDE PORT OF ENTRY	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
09/13/2025	NV	Walk-Around (Level II)	NV	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/25/2025	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	MOUNTAIN PASS CVEF	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/15/2025	UT	Full (Level I)	SALT LAKE CITY UT	5	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/30/2025	ID	Full (Level I)	POST FALLS ID	5	2	0	0	0	2	-	▲Detail
07/28/2025	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	LIBERTY LAKE WA	4	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/01/2025	IL	Driver-Only (Level III)	I-74	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/17/2025	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	COLFAX WA	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/10/2025	CA	Driver-Only (Level III)	MT. PASS JPOE CVEF	2	0	2	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/04/2025	CA	Driver-Only (Level III)	NIMITZ IF	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/26/2025	US	Full (Level I)	BUTTE MT	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/13/2025	OH	Walk-Around (Level II)	ZANESVILLE OH	2	1	0	0	0	1	-	▲Detail
02/27/2025	KS	Walk-Around (Level II)	TREGO COUNTY - 195	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/31/2025	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	BARSTOW AREA	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/28/2025	CA	Full (Level I)	CORDELIA IF	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
01/02/2025	IN	Driver-Only (Level III)	RICHMOND IN	2	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/01/2025	MO	Walk-Around (Level II)	KANSAS CITY MO	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/27/2024	LA	Driver-Only (Level III)	WALKER LA	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/21/2024	AR	Walk-Around (Level II)	HOPE AR	6	1	0	0	0	1	-	▲Detail
08/14/2024	NE	Driver-Only (Level III)	ON STATE HWY 2, 164 FEET SOUTH	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/11/2024	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	CACHE CREEK	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/01/2024	UT	Driver-Only (Level III)	BRIGHAM CITY UT	4	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/21/2024	CA	Full (Level I)	CHOWCHILLA RIVER IF	2	0	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
05/17/2024	CA	Full (Level I)	CACHE CREEK SCALE	5	5	0	0	5	5	-	▲Detail
01/02/2024	AZ	Walk-Around (Level II)	CHANDLER AZ	4	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

FMCSA SMS percentile rankings. Higher percentile = worse performance relative to peers.

Total Inspections27

Unsafe Driving 3 viols

HOS Compliance 6 viols

Vehicle Maintenance 12 viols

Licensing & Insurance

Form	Type	Insurance Company	Policy	Coverage	Effective	Cancel Date	Method
91X	BIPD/Primary	INDEMNITY INSURANCE CO. OF NORTH AMERICA	MMT H25549090	$1,000,000	10/27/2022	10/27/2023	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	PROGRESSIVE SOUTHEASTERN INSURANCE COMPANY	CA962559927	$750,000	10/21/2022	10/27/2022	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	UNITED SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY	GWP60816 00	$750,000	10/15/2020	07/14/2021	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	INDEMNITY INSURANCE CO. OF NORTH AMERICA	MMTH25549090	$1,000,000	07/14/2021	10/16/2022	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	UNITED SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY	GWP60816 00	$750,000	07/14/2020	10/15/2020	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	UNITED SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY	GWP50649 00	$750,000	07/02/2019	07/02/2020	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	PROGRESSIVE COUNTY MUTUAL	CA06678726	$750,000	04/05/2018	07/02/2019	Cancelled

No active insurance policies.

Docket	Type	Action	Served	Disposition	Disp Date
MC071888	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	09/19/2022	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	10/24/2022
MC071888	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	09/18/2020	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	09/30/2020
MC071888	MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER	REINSTATED	07/21/2020	-	-
MC071888	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	06/17/2021	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	07/20/2021
MC071888	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	06/05/2019	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	07/02/2019
MC071888	MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER	GRANTED	04/10/2018	REVOKED	07/08/2020

No revocation records.

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100/100

Excellent

VERIFIED

Every carrier starts at 100. We subtract points for each missing requirement or risk factor below. Verified means all four core requirements pass.

Score breakdown

100, no deductions

Clean record, the bar stays full at 100.

Verification, 4 core requirements

Active operating authority

FMCSA shows the USDOT registration and authority are active.

Authorized for hire

Holds active for-hire (common or contract) authority.

Active insurance on file

Insurance coverage and carrier are on file with FMCSA.

Safety rating not Unsatisfactory

No Unsatisfactory rating on file.

What's lowering this score

Clean record, no deductions. This carrier starts and stays at 100.

How we calculate the Trust Score

Every company starts at 100

We subtract points for each missing requirement or risk factor. Verified means all the core requirements for that company's type pass. Nothing is added back, the score is a deduction model built only on public FMCSA data. No pay-to-play, no opinions.

Requirements differ by company type

Each company is judged fairly on its own FMCSA obligations. Anything that doesn't apply shows as a grey N/A, not required, never a penalty.

Carrier (for-hire)

Operating authority, authorized-for-hire, insurance on file, safety rating.

Broker

Broker authority + $75k surety bond (BMC-84/85). MCS-150 not required (no fleet).

Freight forwarder

FF authority + $75k bond + BOC-3. MCS-150 not required (no trucks).

Private carrier

Active USDOT + MCS-150 + safety. No operating authority / for-hire / insurance filing required (hauls its own goods).

Crashes are scaled, not flat

Crash history is proportional. We don't apply a flat penalty, we scale it to (a) crashes per vehicle in the fleet and (b) the share of those crashes that were fatal. So a big, safe fleet barely moves; a small fleet with many (and fatal) crashes takes a large hit.

0 pts deductedscaled by rate & severityup to −28 pts

Low end

50,000 vehicles + 1 crash → ~0 pts. A huge fleet with very few crashes per vehicle is almost untouched.

High end

5 vehicles + 3 crashes incl. fatal → large deduction (near the −28 cap). Many crashes per truck, fatal-heavy.

Mechanics: deduction is capped at 28 points, weighted roughly 60% on crashes-per-vehicle and 40% on the fatal ratio. Zero crashes = zero deduction. If fleet size is unknown, only crash severity can move the score (conservative).

Out-of-service rate vs. the national average

Driver and vehicle out-of-service rates are measured against the FMCSA national average, not a flat number. A company only takes the deduction when it sits above the national benchmark, for example “Vehicle OOS 37% vs national avg 20.7%”.

Point reference, the full menu

Every factor and exactly how many points it can remove. Knockout factors (they also fail Verification) are marked.

Factor	Points
USDOT / authority not active with FMCSA knockout	−25
Missing operating authority (when required) knockout	−15
No insurance or surety bond on file (when required) knockout	−25
Unsatisfactory safety rating knockout	−30
Conditional safety rating	−12
MCS-150 biennial update overdue (carriers)	−10
Crashes, rate-adjusted (per-vehicle & fatal share)	0 to −28
Driver OOS rate above national average	−5
Vehicle OOS rate above national average	−5
Very new carrier (under 1 year)	−10
Limited operating history (1-3 years)	−6
Moderate operating history (3-5 years)	−3
Operating history unknown	−3
No public phone number	−3
No public email address	−2

All inputs come from public FMCSA records (operating authority, insurance/bond filings, the SAFER/SMS safety profile, crash & inspection reports). If FMCSA updates a record, the score updates with it. For the full deduction table, see the methodology page.

SAM HOUSTON TRUCKLINES LLC

Trust Score

Public record

Company Information

Contact Details

Operating Authorities

Operation Classification

SMS BASIC Scores

Mileage

Drivers

Safety Summary

Insurance

Quick Facts

Safety & Inspection Data

Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Crash Records (1)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (33)

Safety Performance Percentiles

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