Carrier profile · USDOT 1058546 · MC-441786 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Art Transport Inc

98 power unitsavg 8.6 yrNational · 38 statesVAN BUREN, AR74/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-441786 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 39.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 121 vehicle and 252 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

30.2% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 28.1 pts 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

247 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 22

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 98-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
98
Inspections · 24 mo
252
Annualized
≈126 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

89%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
80%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
58%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
83%
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.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving96 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance39 · 10 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance37 · 27 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance33 · 2 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance23 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance22 · 15 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance22 · 9 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance18 · 3 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance11 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

80 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 22, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

39ELD device issues
4No log / no ELD
28False logs
8Drove over hours

Trending worse — 90% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 50 total · 10 in 24 mo

50
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264014
20254104
20246136
20231001
20226036
20214124
20205005
20182002
20162012
20151011
20142002
20131001
20112012
20101011
20094014
20081001
20061001
20043023
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 28, 2026VA00Yes
Apr 21, 2026IN00Yes
Feb 20, 2026NC00Yes
Jan 28, 2026PA01Yes
Nov 10, 2025AR10Yes
Oct 14, 2025TX00Yes
Aug 18, 2025VA00Yes
Jun 1, 2025IA00Yes
Nov 8, 2024TN11Yes
Sep 3, 2024GA00Yes
May 4, 2024TN01Yes
Apr 22, 2024TN00Yes
Apr 15, 2024AL01Yes
Apr 11, 2024AR00Yes
Aug 1, 2023FL00Yes
Nov 16, 2022TX00Yes
Oct 14, 2022TN01Yes
May 22, 2022NC01Yes
Apr 13, 2022KY00Yes
Apr 5, 2022TN00Yes
Jan 20, 2022MO01Yes
Sep 29, 2021IL00Yes
Jul 2, 2021OH02Yes
Apr 28, 2021PA00Yes
Apr 19, 2021AL11Yes