Carrier profile · USDOT 754074 · MC-649757 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

K-va-t Food Stores Inc

DBA FOOD CITY

118 power unitsavg 5.3 yrRegional · 5 statesABINGDON, VA81/100
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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 28.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 70 vehicle and 183 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

40.9% · 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 12.1 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

180 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 16

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 118-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
118
Inspections · 24 mo
183
Annualized
≈92 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

26%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
9%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
7%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
53%
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 Driving29 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance21 · 20 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance9 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Jul 19, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 66 total · 5 in 24 mo

66
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
19
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253013
20244024
2023110510
20224014
20217027
20204034
20193102
20182002
20174024
20163013
20152002
20142002
20122002
20112002
20105005
20094014
20072002
20062012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 28, 2025TN00Yes
Mar 5, 2025VA01Yes
Feb 1, 2025TN00Yes
Dec 22, 2024VA00Yes
Aug 15, 2024TN00Yes
Jul 3, 2024TN01Yes
Mar 18, 2024VA02Yes
Dec 14, 2023TN00Yes
Nov 22, 2023TN01Yes
Oct 24, 2023GA01Yes
Sep 20, 2023TN00Yes
Sep 12, 2023TN01No
Jul 31, 2023VA01Yes
May 18, 2023TN00Yes
May 18, 2023VA00Yes
Apr 2, 2023TN00Yes
Feb 19, 2023TN02Yes
Jan 4, 2023TN00Yes
Oct 4, 2022GA00Yes
Aug 27, 2022TN00Yes
Jul 10, 2022TN00Yes
May 12, 2022VA01Yes
Oct 28, 2021TN00Yes
Oct 7, 2021TN00Yes
Sep 27, 2021TN01Yes