Carrier profile · USDOT 506004 · MC-259291 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

Hickman Transport Company Inc

228 power unitsavg 10.6 yrRegional · 4 statesVALDOSTA, GA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-259291 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkshickmantransport.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 12.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 25 vehicle and 98 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 13.4 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

96 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '25 · 10

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 228-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
228
Inspections · 24 mo
98
Annualized
≈49 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

19%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
75%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
84%
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 Driving51 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance39 · 3 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness9 · 3 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Dec 9, 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· 74 total · 8 in 24 mo

74
Total crashes
8
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
30
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20255025
20246135
20235032
20224034
202110029
20204014
20194014
20183003
20174024
20162022
20153013
20141010
20133013
20121100
20111001
20101011
20072002
20061001
20042012
20032012
20012011
20002002
19991001
19972020
19962121
19951001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 3, 2025AL00Yes
Dec 3, 2025AL00Yes
Aug 19, 2025GA00Yes
Jun 2, 2025FL02Yes
May 2, 2025FL01Yes
Dec 12, 2024GA02Yes
Dec 5, 2024FL01No
Aug 19, 2024FL01Yes
Jul 20, 2024FL00Yes
Jun 24, 2024FL10Yes
Apr 30, 2024FL00Yes
Sep 17, 2023GA00Yes
Jul 5, 2023FL00Yes
May 3, 2023FL01No
Apr 19, 2023FL01No
Jan 15, 2023FL01No
Dec 23, 2022FL01Yes
Oct 31, 2022GA03Yes
Jul 18, 2022FL00Yes
May 12, 2022GA01Yes
Dec 20, 2021FL00Yes
Dec 6, 2021FL00Yes
Dec 4, 2021FL00Yes
Nov 10, 2021GA02Yes
Nov 8, 2021FL01No