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KDN TRANSPORT GROUP LLC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 44.6% (24-mo)249 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 36.4% (24-mo)338 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%

030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

52.4% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 10.7 pts across the window — latest above the 22.26% national benchmark.

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

≈8.4 / 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: 20
Inspections · 24 mo: 338
Annualized: ≈169 / yr
Coverage: ≈8.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

99%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

98%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

99%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

71%

Controlled Substances

Vektor peer est.

91%

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 Driving222 · 1 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance116 · 9 OOS
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance110 · 42 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance101 · 41 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance64
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving61
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance48
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness46 · 46 OOS
393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance44 · 2 OOS
393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance43 · 42 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

209 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/11/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

101ELD device issues

35No log / no ELD

56False logs

17Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 3 total · 3 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year		Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026		3	0	1	2

Date	State	Injuries	Tow-away
06/12/2026	NJ	0	Yes
04/30/2026	AL	0	Yes
03/17/2026	TN	1	No