Carrier profile · USDOT 811898 · MC-159094 · Updated Aug 13, 2026

Freight Transportation Service Inc

60 power unitsavg 7.5 yrMulti-region · 12 statesCHARLESTON, MO81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-159094 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 30.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 133 vehicle and 195 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

32.3% · 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 15.5 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

187 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 13

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
60
Inspections · 24 mo
195
Annualized
98 / yr
Coverage
1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
78%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
82%
Vehicle Maintenance
Alert

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.

  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance55 · 30 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving49 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance38 · 8 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance33 · 8 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance17 · 6 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance13 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 2 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

47 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 18, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

21ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
8False logs
13Drove over hours

Trending worse — 86% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 67 total · 7 in 24 mo

67
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
4
Fatal
27
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20253003
20242022
20231010
20226116
20215135
20204033
20197136
20182012
20174024
20163023
20141001
20132002
20123003
20113013
20105005
20093023
20082002
20075045
20062002
20052111
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 30, 2026TX01Yes
Feb 9, 2026KY00Yes
Nov 25, 2025KY00Yes
Aug 19, 2025TX00Yes
May 17, 2025TX00Yes
Oct 10, 2024KY01Yes
Sep 16, 2024AR01Yes
Mar 2, 2023TX01No
Sep 27, 2022IN00Yes
Jul 23, 2022TX11Yes
May 22, 2022AR00Yes
May 6, 2022TX00Yes
May 3, 2022AR00Yes
Feb 25, 2022PA00Yes
Nov 30, 2021MO00Yes
Sep 22, 2021TN00Yes
Sep 15, 2021IL12Yes
May 26, 2021AR01Yes
Mar 26, 2021TX02Yes
Aug 13, 2020TX01No
Mar 19, 2020KY00Yes
Feb 24, 2020IL01Yes
Jan 27, 2020TX02Yes
Nov 24, 2019TX01No
Oct 8, 2019TX01Yes