Carrier profile · USDOT 1252905 · MC-491016 · Updated Jun 26, 2026

Knight Refrigerated LLC

379 power unitsavg 5 yrNational · 36 statesPHOENIX, AZ88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-491016 ACTIVERATED 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 17.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 454 vehicle and 827 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

17.9% · 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

793 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 47

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 379-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
379
Inspections · 24 mo
827
Annualized
≈414 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

49%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
90%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
51%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
44%
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 Driving299 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance95 · 84 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance65 · 19 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance58 · 17 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance50 · 7 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance44 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance42 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance39 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance33 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance32 · 12 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

198 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 12, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

96ELD device issues
7No log / no ELD
38False logs
42Drove over hours

Trending worse — 64% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 579 total · 37 in 24 mo

579
Total crashes
37
In last 24 mo
21
Fatal
147
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20269019
2025171417
2024181618
2023160615
2022270525
2021262726
2020300627
2019443942
20183321233
2017440843
20163821036
2015330732
20143301233
2013230822
2012332632
2011253824
2010292629
2009250525
2008280428
2007221821
2006222920
20054004
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 21, 2026CA00Yes
Jun 11, 2026AZ00Yes
Jun 4, 2026IN00Yes
Apr 18, 2026TN00Yes
Feb 9, 2026KY00Yes
Feb 8, 2026AR00Yes
Jan 27, 2026AZ02Yes
Jan 15, 2026MD00Yes
Jan 3, 2026IL00Yes
Dec 31, 2025CA00Yes
Dec 29, 2025CO10Yes
Nov 3, 2025VA00Yes
Oct 29, 2025AZ00Yes
Oct 17, 2025MO00Yes
Sep 19, 2025KY00Yes
Aug 19, 2025KY00Yes
Jul 9, 2025NC02Yes
May 11, 2025CA00Yes
Apr 26, 2025CA00Yes
Apr 20, 2025ID00Yes
Mar 18, 2025TX02Yes
Mar 14, 2025KS00Yes
Feb 16, 2025IN00Yes
Feb 5, 2025MO00Yes
Jan 24, 2025TX02Yes