Carrier profile · USDOT 988837 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Dakota Utility Contractors LLC

99 power unitsavg 7.1 yrRegional · 5 statesENNIS, TX74/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksdakotautility.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 36.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 26.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 33 vehicle and 34 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.2% · 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 6.4 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

33 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 5

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 99-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
99
Inspections · 24 mo
34
Annualized
≈17 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

7%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
73%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
97%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
73%
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 Driving26 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance20 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness11 · 11 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness7 · 3 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 20, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 10 total · 0 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20221011
20211011
20202012
20191001
20151011
20142002
20101001
20041001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 20, 2022TX01Yes
Sep 22, 2021TX01Yes
May 28, 2020TX00Yes
Feb 8, 2020TX02Yes
Jan 4, 2019TX00Yes
Mar 20, 2015TX02Yes
Dec 17, 2014TX00Yes
Dec 11, 2014TX00Yes
Apr 15, 2010TX00Yes
May 27, 2004TX00Yes