Carrier profile · USDOT 16189 · MC-160199 · Updated Jun 24, 2026

Cooke Trucking Company Inc

88 power unitsavg 6.1 yrNational · 26 statesMOUNT AIRY, NC88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-160199 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkscooketrucking.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 16.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 93 vehicle and 183 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.2% · 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

177 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 14

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
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 88-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
88
Inspections · 24 mo
183
Annualized
≈92 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

50%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
41%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
21%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
12%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
33%
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 Driving58 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance21 · 20 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

14 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 14, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 78% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 159 total · 9 in 24 mo

159
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
6
Fatal
74
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262022
20253013
20247137
20239039
20225135
20213012
20205015
20193013
20188028
20179158
20167017
20157046
20146016
20134014
20124014
20115015
20104023
20096026
20085145
20076046
20065014
20054024
20041011
20036045
20013003
20004133
19995135
19983033
19974033
19962012
19954043
19943032
19931011
19921000
19914021
19901001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 17, 2026VA04Yes
Jan 9, 2026CO01Yes
Oct 22, 2025IL00Yes
Aug 10, 2025GA00Yes
Jul 19, 2025WY01Yes
Dec 22, 2024TN00Yes
Oct 5, 2024VA01Yes
Sep 14, 2024CA00Yes
Sep 12, 2024AR12Yes
May 15, 2024CA00Yes
Apr 28, 2024NE01Yes
Feb 28, 2024TN00Yes
Dec 29, 2023AZ00Yes
Jul 5, 2023VA00Yes
Jun 30, 2023SC01Yes
Jun 2, 2023OH00Yes
Mar 29, 2023NM01Yes
Mar 9, 2023CA00Yes
Feb 24, 2023VA00Yes
Feb 9, 2023NM00Yes
Jan 8, 2023TN02Yes
Dec 25, 2022GA21Yes
Oct 20, 2022AR01Yes
Jun 11, 2022NM02Yes
Apr 7, 2022CA00Yes