Carrier profile · USDOT 1084893 · MC-450381 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Cottingham & Tavis Transportation LLC

DBA CT TRANSPORTATION

10 power unitsavg 8.8 yrRegional · 7 statesGRAND RAPIDS, MN100/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-450381 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksmchsi.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 14.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 14 vehicle and 28 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 13.6 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

28 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 3

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
≈1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 10-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
10
Inspections · 24 mo
28
Annualized
≈14 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

21%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
58%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
27%
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 Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.70 Coupling devices / fifth wheelVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 7, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 19 total · 0 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20231001
20181001
20172011
20163013
20144034
20121001
20111010
20092102
20071001
20062012
20051001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 17, 2023MN00Yes
Aug 6, 2018MO00Yes
Jun 6, 2017WI00Yes
May 11, 2017MN01No
Dec 8, 2016MN00Yes
Mar 4, 2016MN00Yes
Jan 9, 2016ND01Yes
Dec 7, 2014TX01Yes
Sep 29, 2014MN00Yes
Jul 25, 2014MN03Yes
Mar 7, 2014MN01Yes
Aug 16, 2012MN00Yes
Jun 23, 2011GA01No
Dec 4, 2009AL10Yes
Oct 6, 2009WI00Yes
Feb 10, 2007NE00Yes
Oct 9, 2006MN01Yes
Jul 12, 2006ND00Yes
Aug 29, 2005MN00Yes