Carrier profile · USDOT 97261 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

JOHN E JENKINS INC

8 power unitsavg 2.8 yrLocal · 1 statesGASTONIA, NC100/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 0.0%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 — 4 vehicle and 9 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

9 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '25 · 2

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
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 8-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
8
Inspections · 24 mo
9
Annualized
≈5 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
1.75measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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.

  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 13 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 19 total · 0 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
14
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20191001
20171001
20152012
20141011
20121011
20111011
20101011
20081011
20071011
20042011
20021011
19962022
19952012
19942022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 15, 2019NC00Yes
Sep 16, 2017NC00Yes
May 12, 2015NC02Yes
May 12, 2015NC00Yes
Dec 2, 2014NC01Yes
Mar 21, 2012NC01Yes
May 12, 2011NC01Yes
Jun 21, 2010NC01Yes
Jun 23, 2008NC02Yes
Apr 10, 2007NC01Yes
Nov 13, 2004NJ00Yes
Jul 25, 2004NC01No
Jul 25, 2002NC01Yes
Oct 4, 1996NC01Yes
Mar 22, 1996NC01Yes
May 12, 1995NC01Yes
Mar 24, 1995NC00Yes
Apr 1, 1994NC03Yes
Apr 1, 1994NC010Yes