CHENEY BROTHERS INC
USDOT 41648MC-Docket MC895890RIVIERA BEACH, FL
Review before tenderingHazmat-authorized715 power units
CHENEY BROTHERS INC (USDOT 41648) in RIVIERA BEACH, FL — 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: $1,000,000.
- 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 rates are at or below the national roadside average.
- 24 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.
- FMCSA compliance review on file dated 2011-05-26 (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
- Active
Safety & BASIC scorecard
BASIC safety measures
Unsafe driving
No alert
measure 0.32
Hours of service
No alert
measure 0
Driver fitness
No alert
measure 0.02
Controlled substance
No alert
measure 0
Vehicle maintenance
No alert
measure 2.25
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
16
Injuries
35
Crashes
326
Inspections
16
OOS inspections
22
OOS violations
Insurance
- BIPD on file
- $1,000,000
- Cargo insurance
- No
- Bond on file
- No
Fleet
- Power units
- 715
- Total drivers
- 850
- Years in business
- 52
- Hazmat authority
- Yes
Crash risk
- Preventable crashes (24 mo)
- 24 of 35 total crash(es)
- Recordable crash rate
- Not available
- Driver OOS rate
- 0.6%
- Vehicle OOS rate
- 13.2%
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
- None on file
- Physical address
- No address flags
- Federal OOS / safety action
- None on file
- MCS-150 self-report
- 2024-08-13
- Insurance lapse history
- No lapses on record
- Last compliance review
- 2011-05-26 · C
Inspection history (all-time)
507
Inspections
30
OOS inspections
227
Violations
40
OOS violations
3
Post-accident
Record spans 2023-06-23 → 2026-06-10.
Crash history (last 24 months)
2026-03-17
FL
Tow-away
2026-03-14
FL
Tow-awayHazmat released
2026-02-13
FL
Tow-away
2026-01-16
FL
1 injuredTow-away
2026-01-02
SC
1 injuredTow-away
2026-01-02
GA
Tow-away
2025-11-29
FL
Tow-away
2025-11-22
SC
Tow-away
2025-11-11
FL
Tow-away
2025-10-22
NC
1 injuredTow-away
2025-10-17
FL
Tow-away
2025-09-19
FL
1 injuredTow-away
2025-09-17
SC
Tow-away
2025-09-02
NC
Tow-away
2025-08-19
NC
Tow-away
2025-08-13
FL
Tow-away
2025-06-17
FL
Tow-away
2025-06-16
FL
1 injuredTow-away
2025-04-14
FL
Tow-away
2025-03-04
FL
Tow-away
2025-01-29
FL
1 injuredTow-away
2025-01-21
FL
Tow-away
2025-01-16
FL
Tow-away
2025-01-03
NC
1 injuredTow-away
2024-12-03
NC
3 injuredTow-away
Violation pattern (all-time, by area)
| Area (49 CFR part) | Violations | Out of service | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
Unsafe driving 392
|
98 | 0 | 2026-04-20 |
Vehicle parts & maintenance 393
|
91 | 38 | 2026-05-20 |
Vehicle inspection & repair 396
|
11 | 4 | 2026-04-30 |
General safety regulations 390
|
10 | 0 | 2026-04-30 |
Hours of service 395
|
9 | 0 | 2026-05-19 |
Driver qualifications 391
|
3 | 3 | 2024-10-02 |
CDL standards 383
|
1 | 1 | 2024-01-25 |
Financial responsibility (insurance) 387
|
1 | 0 | 2024-08-12 |
Recent violations (last 24 months, worst first)
| Date | Category | Violation | OOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-23 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tires - All others leaking in tread area and inflation less than 50% of the maximum inflation pressure on tire equipped | OOS |
| 2026-04-23 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - ABS malfunction lamp defective on trailers manufactured on or after March 1 1998 | — |
| 2026-04-20 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 6-10 miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2026-04-16 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Failed to obey a traffic control device - Permanent or Temporary - e.g. safety official signal sign l | — |
| 2026-03-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Hose/tubing damage into the outer reinforcement ply. | OOS |
| 2026-03-26 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Failed to obey a traffic control device - Permanent or Temporary - e.g. safety official signal sign l | — |
| 2026-03-04 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake tubing and hose adequacy | — |
| 2026-01-20 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative Brake Lamps | OOS |
| 2026-01-20 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative turn signal | OOS |
| 2026-01-20 | Vehicle Maintenance | No/improper breakaway or emergency braking | OOS |
| 2026-01-20 | Vehicle Maintenance | Operating a CMV without proof of a periodic inspection | — |
| 2025-12-22 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable Required Lamp | — |
| 2025-12-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Driver - Failed to conduct pre-trip inspection or make use of required parts and accessories | — |
| 2025-11-29 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Clearance lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-11-16 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 6-10 miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2025-11-15 | Vehicle Maintenance | Cargo - Cargo not secured to prevent leaking/spilling/blowing/falling from CMV | OOS |
| 2025-11-05 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Turn signal - Any inoperative on the rearmost vehicle. | OOS |
| 2025-11-05 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Hose/tubing damage into the outer reinforcement ply. | OOS |
| 2025-11-05 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Audible air leak at other than a proper connection | OOS |
| 2025-11-05 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Stop lamps - Any inoperative. | — |
| 2025-10-31 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Failed to obey a traffic control device - Permanent or Temporary - e.g. safety official signal sign l | — |
| 2025-10-28 | Unsafe Driving | Driver - Failed to use seat belt while operating a CMV | — |
| 2025-09-25 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Hose/tubing damage into the outer reinforcement ply. | OOS |
| 2025-09-03 | Unsafe Driving | Lane Restriction violation | — |
| 2025-08-07 | Vehicle Maintenance | Cargo - Cargo not secured to prevent leaking/spilling/blowing/falling from CMV | OOS |
| 2025-08-07 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tires - Less than 2/32 inch tread depth | — |
| 2025-07-31 | Unsafe Driving | Driver - Using a hand-held mobile telephone | — |
| 2025-07-10 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tires - All others leaking or inflation less than 50% of the maximum inflation pressure on tire not equipped with ATIS | OOS |
| 2025-07-09 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 11-14 miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2025-06-27 | Unsafe Driving | Driver - Using a hand-held mobile telephone | — |
| 2025-06-27 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (ELD) - In-Vehicle Information - Failing to have a supply of blank driver's records of duty status graph-grids suffi | — |
| 2025-06-27 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (ELD) - ELD Form and Manner | — |
| 2025-06-17 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Failed to obey a traffic control device - Permanent or Temporary - e.g. safety official signal sign l | — |
| 2025-06-09 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Lane restriction violation | — |
| 2025-05-17 | Unsafe Driving | Driver- Inattentive or Distracted Driving | — |
| 2025-05-06 | Vehicle Maintenance | Emergency Equipment - Fire Extinguishers - no fire extinguisher present or not properly rated. | — |
| 2025-05-03 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tire-flat and/or audible air leak | OOS |
| 2025-04-24 | Unsafe Driving | Failing to use seat belt while operating a CMV | — |
| 2025-04-11 | Vehicle Maintenance | All Brakes - Insufficient brake lining thickness | — |
| 2025-04-08 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Audible air leak at a proper connection | — |
| 2025-04-04 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Following too closely | — |
| 2025-04-04 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (ELD) - ELD Form and Manner | — |
| 2025-03-28 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Turn signal - Any inoperative on the rearmost vehicle. | OOS |
| 2025-03-28 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Tail lamp - Both lamps on rearmost vehicle inoperative when required to be on | OOS |
| 2025-03-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Audible air leak at a proper connection | — |
| 2025-03-06 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Failed to obey a traffic control device - Permanent or Temporary - e.g. safety official signal sign l | — |
| 2025-02-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tires - All others leaking or inflation less than 50% of the maximum inflation pressure on tire not equipped with ATIS | OOS |
| 2025-02-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - CMV other than truck-tractor manufactured on or after March 1 1998 not equipped with an antilock brake syste | — |
| 2025-02-27 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 15 or more miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2025-02-25 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Hose/tubing damaged or not secured | — |
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.
2026-05-20 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55E-B | — | — |
2026-05-19 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 3A2-HOSPD | — | — |
2026-04-30 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| General safety regulations 390 | 21TB1-MC | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 17C-PI | — | — |
2026-04-23 2 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75A3-TAOLTIS | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55E-B | — | — |
2026-04-20 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLS2 | — | — |
2026-04-16 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLTCD | — | — |
2026-03-30 1 viol· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45B2-BHTD | OOS | — |
2026-03-26 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLTCD | — | — |
2026-03-17 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLEWA2 | — | — |
2026-03-12 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| General safety regulations 390 | 21TB2-DOT | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLEWA1 | — | — |
2026-03-04 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45 | — | — |
2026-03-03 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLEWA2 | — | — |
2026-01-26 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLSR | — | — |
2026-01-20 5 viols· 3 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 17C | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 43 | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9BRKLAMP | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | OOS | — |
2025-12-22 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
2025-12-02 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 7A-D | — | — |
2025-11-29 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LCL | — | — |
2025-11-16 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLS2 | — | — |
2025-11-15 2 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 100B-C | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLDL | — | — |
2025-11-05 5 viols· 4 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LSLI | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LTSI | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45B2-BHTD | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45D-BAAL | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LTSI | OOS | — |
2025-10-31 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLTCD | — | — |
2025-10-28 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 16-D | — | — |
2025-10-20 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLS1 | — | — |
2025-10-08 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| General safety regulations 390 | 21TB2-DOT | — | — |
2025-09-25 1 viol· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45B2-BHTD | OOS | — |
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