Carrier profile · USDOT 525705 · MC-264668 · Updated Jul 17, 2026

Cottonwood Truck Services Inc

DBA LENERTZ LIVESTOCK

8 power unitsavg 5.1 yrRegional · 5 statesLILYDALE, MN94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-264668 ACTIVERATED CONDITIONAL
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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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 9.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 2 vehicle and 11 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

10 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 1

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 8-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
8
Inspections · 24 mo
11
Annualized
≈6 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

32%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
74%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
clean · per-BASIC

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 Driving10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Sep 22, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 32 total · 0 in 24 mo

32
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20213003
20202022
20181001
20171001
20151001
20141011
20111001
20102012
20092002
20082012
20062002
20031001
20021001
20012022
20003013
19991001
19982002
19971010
19962022
19951001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 19, 2021SD00Yes
Oct 22, 2021WI00Yes
Feb 18, 2021CO00Yes
Dec 3, 2020WI01Yes
Apr 12, 2020NE01Yes
Aug 17, 2018IA00Yes
May 24, 2017WI00Yes
Jan 22, 2015WI00Yes
Nov 23, 2014MN01Yes
Mar 22, 2011MN00Yes
Jun 8, 2010SD00Yes
Feb 1, 2010IA02Yes
Dec 12, 2009WI00Yes
Jan 21, 2009IA00Yes
Dec 8, 2008MN01Yes
Jan 29, 2008SD00Yes
Nov 1, 2006SD00Yes
Oct 15, 2006NE00Yes
Apr 10, 2003SD00Yes
Aug 1, 2002IL00Yes
Jul 25, 2001SD01Yes
Mar 13, 2001IA03Yes
Aug 8, 2000UT01Yes
Jan 25, 2000SD00Yes
Jan 6, 2000ND00Yes