Carrier profile · USDOT 1427502 · MC-539567 · Updated Jun 27, 2026

Drake Enterprises of Lincolnton Nc LLC

46 power unitsavg 6.6 yrMulti-region · 12 statesLINCOLNTON, NC88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-539567 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksdrakenc.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 11.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 34 vehicle and 79 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12.5% · 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 19.1 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

79 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '25 · 8

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
≈0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 46-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
46
Inspections · 24 mo
79
Annualized
≈40 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

37%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
27%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
17%
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 Driving33 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.203 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Nov 18, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 45 total · 5 in 24 mo

45
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
14
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20246025
20233013
20225015
20214034
20202002
20192102
20184004
20171001
20165025
20152002
20133013
20112012
20101011
20081001
20072012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 1, 2026NC00Yes
Feb 5, 2026NC01Yes
Nov 4, 2024TX01Yes
Oct 29, 2024VA00Yes
Sep 29, 2024FL00Yes
May 22, 2024NC00Yes
Feb 23, 2024NC00Yes
Jan 4, 2024TX03No
Nov 14, 2023FL00Yes
Oct 29, 2023SC00Yes
Jun 27, 2023SC01Yes
Dec 29, 2022FL00Yes
Oct 10, 2022TX00Yes
Oct 3, 2022FL00Yes
Aug 30, 2022NC04Yes
Apr 7, 2022AZ00Yes
Dec 21, 2021NC01Yes
Sep 30, 2021AL00Yes
Sep 9, 2021NC01Yes
Jun 19, 2021GA02Yes
Oct 19, 2020GA00Yes
Jun 12, 2020VA00Yes
Aug 15, 2019TN00Yes
Jun 20, 2019NC10Yes
Dec 2, 2018OK00Yes