Carrier profile · USDOT 2517181 · MC-873499 · Updated Jul 5, 2026

Ama Transport LLC

17 power unitsavg 11.2 yrMulti-region · 14 statesCHARLOTTE, NC87/100
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Safety

Roadside out-of-service rates versus the national benchmark, inspection and crash trends, decoded violation themes, and ELD / hours-of-service integrity — the full safety picture behind the verdict.

Out-of-service rate· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 33.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 15 vehicle and 36 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

33.3% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

36 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 5

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal

Inspection coverage

How heavily FMCSA inspects this fleet for its size — it tells you how much to trust the safety signals above. Thin coverage on a young authority is a fraud signal nobody else surfaces.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 17-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
17
Inspections · 24 mo
36
Annualized
≈18 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

48%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
73%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
35%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
54%
Vehicle Maintenance
Vektor peer est.

Percentile = standing among same-exposure peers (higher = worse). FMCSA publishes percentiles for only some carriers (shown official); elsewhere we show a Vektor peer-percentile estimate, or the absolute SMS measure when there are too few inspections to rank.

Violation themes· decoded · grouped by BASIC

What this carrier actually gets cited for — FMCSA violation codes decoded into plain English, ranked by frequency.

  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance8 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

27 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Nov 20, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

13ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
10False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 69% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 19 total · 5 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20253023
20241011
20231001
20226036
20211001
20202012
20192012
20181010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 27, 2026PA00Yes
Mar 16, 2026WI00Yes
Dec 23, 2025SC01Yes
Aug 13, 2025MD00Yes
Aug 8, 2025NC01Yes
May 3, 2024IL01Yes
Aug 29, 2023GA00Yes
Nov 11, 2022NC00Yes
Sep 16, 2022TN03Yes
Sep 1, 2022NC00Yes
Feb 17, 2022MO01Yes
Feb 17, 2022MO00Yes
Feb 16, 2022TN01Yes
May 7, 2021PA00Yes
Nov 12, 2020VA01Yes
Jan 2, 2020GA00Yes
Apr 5, 2019SC01Yes
Feb 27, 2019OR00Yes
Dec 18, 2018TN01No