Carrier profile · USDOT 3100246 · MC-77060 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

CKS Transport Inc

20 power unitsavg 4.3 yrMulti-region · 14 statesBAKERSFIELD, CA81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-77060 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 28.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 21 vehicle and 46 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

40.0% · 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 4.1 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

45 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 4

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 20-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
20
Inspections · 24 mo
46
Annualized
≈23 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

95%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
96%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
24%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
59%
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 Driving38 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance30 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance13 · 3 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 4 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.32 ELD — non-authenticated drivingHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

86 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 16, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

42ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
26False logs
12Drove over hours

Trending worse — 81% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 11 total · 7 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20253013
20242011
20211001
20202012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 7, 2026OK00Yes
Jan 14, 2026KS00Yes
Jan 6, 2026TN00Yes
Jun 13, 2025MO00Yes
May 4, 2025CA01Yes
Jan 6, 2025VA00Yes
Nov 4, 2024MO00Yes
Mar 5, 2024VA01No
Feb 21, 2021NM00Yes
Dec 25, 2020PA00Yes
Jan 27, 2020TN03Yes