Carrier profile · USDOT 1106765 · MC-455378 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Cardinal Transport Inc

44 power unitsavg 6.6 yrRegional · 7 statesSIMPSONVILLE, SC94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-455378 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkscardinaltransportinc.comFMCSA SAFER

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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 13 vehicle and 93 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 28.9 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

93 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '25 · 10

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 44-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
44
Inspections · 24 mo
93
Annualized
≈47 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

19%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
16%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
12%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
15%
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 Driving92 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

12 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 28, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Trending worse — 60% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 17 total · 3 in 24 mo

17
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20251001
20244024
20231011
20213033
20201011
20193023
20183023
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 14, 2026GA01Yes
Aug 28, 2025SC00Yes
Nov 27, 2024SC00Yes
Aug 8, 2024GA01Yes
Jul 19, 2024SC00Yes
May 7, 2024NC04Yes
Oct 4, 2023NC01Yes
Nov 8, 2021SC01Yes
Sep 23, 2021TN01Yes
Apr 8, 2021SC01Yes
Sep 18, 2020GA01Yes
Nov 20, 2019SC01Yes
Aug 23, 2019SC01Yes
Apr 4, 2019SC00Yes
Nov 19, 2018SC00Yes
Oct 30, 2018SC01Yes
Feb 6, 2018SC02Yes