Carrier profile · USDOT 1473865 · MC-556503 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

F S Transportation LLC

19 power unitsavg 11.3 yrRegional · 4 statesNEW CARLISLE, IN94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-556503 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksfivestarsheets.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 10.0%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 — 10 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● 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

28 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 4

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 19-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
19
Inspections · 24 mo
28
Annualized
≈14 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

34%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
2%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
3%
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 Driving16 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 383.51 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 392.8 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Feb 25, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

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

Crash history· 27 total · 1 in 24 mo

27
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20243003
20222002
20212002
20202002
20193003
20182012
20171001
20161011
20151001
20141001
20123023
20111001
20101001
20071001
20062012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 14, 2025IN00Yes
Mar 9, 2024MI00Yes
Jan 18, 2024MI00Yes
Jan 12, 2024MI00Yes
Sep 11, 2022IL00Yes
Jun 21, 2022IN00Yes
Jun 17, 2021IN00Yes
Jan 4, 2021IL00Yes
Sep 22, 2020IN00Yes
Feb 12, 2020IN00Yes
Dec 5, 2019IN00Yes
Aug 27, 2019IN00Yes
Jan 30, 2019MI00Yes
Sep 10, 2018MI01Yes
Aug 2, 2018IN00Yes
Dec 9, 2017IN00Yes
Mar 22, 2016MI01Yes
Oct 31, 2015IN00Yes
May 21, 2014MI00Yes
Nov 12, 2012IL01Yes
Jan 17, 2012MI00Yes
Jan 13, 2012IN01Yes
Sep 27, 2011WI00Yes
Feb 19, 2010IL00Yes
Feb 6, 2007IN00Yes