Carrier profile · USDOT 283992 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

KELSAN INC

27 power unitsavg 2.6 yrRegional · 6 statesKNOXVILLE, TN100/100
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 7.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 14 vehicle and 32 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 6.3 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

32 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 3

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 27-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
27
Inspections · 24 mo
32
Annualized
≈16 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

2%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
20%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
30%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
6%
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 Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 383.51 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Nov 12, 2024. 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· 12 total · 0 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20203003
20181011
20171001
20161001
20131011
20121001
20111001
20021001
19952012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 8, 2020TN00Yes
Aug 25, 2020TN00Yes
Apr 1, 2020TN00Yes
Nov 5, 2018NC01Yes
Feb 2, 2017TN00Yes
Aug 4, 2016TN00Yes
May 24, 2013NC01Yes
Aug 29, 2012TN00Yes
Jun 2, 2011TN00Yes
Sep 6, 2002TN00Yes
Dec 19, 1995KY00Yes
Jun 20, 1995GA02Yes