Angelina Manufactured Housing Inc

A 39-year-old Lufkin manufactured-home retailer that hauls its own inventory across East Texas. The federal carrier registration is current and the TDHCA dealer paperwork is in order, but two specific items deserve a buyer's attention before signing.

The two questions to put in writing before paying a deposit

1. What's the installer license number for whoever does the setup, leveling, and anchoring on your home?

2. What FMCSR violations were cited in the July 16, 2025 vehicle Out-of-Service inspection, and what was repaired or retired since?

R. L. (Roger L.) Lehman Jr is named as the responsible party on TDHCA retailer license MHDRET00002960, active through October 12, 2026. The Better Business Bureau records the underlying business as having opened January 1, 1987 and incorporated September 8, 1988, which puts the institutional footprint, including a 4.6-star average across roughly 60 Google reviews, well ahead of most one-truck competitors in Angelina County.

What the inspection record actually shows

The carrier's 24-month FMCSA inspection window contains two roadside inspections. One placed the vehicle Out-of-Service. The other did not.

With a sample size of two, FMCSA's data-sufficiency rules suppress the SMS BASIC percentile display, so the carrier shows "Insufficient Data" across most categories. That suppression is the reason the file should not be read as clean. A 50% face-value vehicle Out-of-Service rate is small-sample noise statistically, but it is also a real event that happened to a real truck nine months ago.

Why "ACTIVE" understates the authority limit

The federal record reads ACTIVE for USDOT 1038471, but three other fields tell a more specific story.

Read together, those fields mean the company is a private intrastate carrier hauling its own and dealer-customer homes within Texas under TxDMV manufactured-housing permits. It is not a for-hire transporter, including within Texas, and it cannot lawfully carry a home across a state line under its current registration.

Who this disqualifies as customers: anyone planning a cross-state move, and anyone who already owns the home and is shopping for a third-party transporter to move it. The carrier's economic model serves dealer-channel buyers of its own inventory.

The TDHCA Installer gap

The company's website tells customers the team will "set up your mobile home for you." Setting a manufactured home in Texas, including leveling, blocking, and anchoring, is regulated work that under Texas Occupations Code §1201.352 requires either an Installer license held by the retailer or a written subcontract to a licensed installer.

The TDHCA license search returns:

License type	Status under company / principal name
Retailer (MHDRET)	MHDRET00002960
Salesperson (MHSLSP)	MHSLSP00038052
Installer (MHDINS)	No record under company or principal

That does not mean the work is being done unlawfully. It means the contracting installer's license number is not visible from the public record. A buyer should ask for it in writing before any setup work begins, and verify it on mhweb.tdhca.state.tx.us.

What the fleet numbers tell you about the business model

The MCS-150 filing dated January 28, 2026 reports 4 power units, 3 drivers, and 50,000 miles for calendar year 2025.

~12,500 miles per truck per year

Low by long-haul standards. Consistent with a dealer-affiliated transport arm whose primary job is delivering inventory off the Lufkin lot to customer sites within a 200-mile radius.

The implication for buyers: this is project-based regional transport, not continuous freight operation. If the move requires high availability or tight scheduling against an external job, the carrier's economic model is not optimized for that.

Surety bond stack and what it means for buyer protection

The TDHCA Retailer license is backed by surety bonds from five separate carriers, layered over different periods of the company's operating history:

For a Texas manufactured-home buyer, the practical meaning: if a documented retailer dispute meets TDHCA's claim threshold, there is a regulated bond stack to file against, separate from any private litigation. This is a real consumer protection mechanism that pure-play independent transporters without retailer licensing do not provide.

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Sources

FMCSA SAFER (retrieved April 30, 2026) · FMCSA SMS · FMCSA L&I · TDHCA mhweb · BBB Heart of Texas profile · angelinarv.com · Texas Occupations Code §1201

Audit synthesized from public records as of April 30, 2026. Carriers may dispute FMCSA records via the DataQs system. This audit does not have visibility into the carrier's current insurance certificate, current driver roster, or claims-paid history, which buyers should request directly from the operator.