Carrier profile · USDOT 3201709 · MC-178029 · Updated Jul 9, 2026

KVS HOLDING INC

146 power unitsavg 5.7 yrNational · 21 statesGALION, OH94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-178029 ACTIVEHAZMAT
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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 9.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 180 vehicle and 287 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

10.9% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 8.1 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

279 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 20

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
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 146-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
146
Inspections · 24 mo
287
Annualized
≈144 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

56%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
54%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
45%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
14%
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 Driving85 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance24 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance23 · 17 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance16 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance16 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness4 · 4 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

47ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
4False logs
10Drove over hours

Trending worse — 89% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 14 total · 6 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254004
20243022
20223003
20213033
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 23, 2026AR00Yes
Dec 9, 2025MI00Yes
Jul 30, 2025TX00Yes
Jul 10, 2025TX00Yes
Feb 20, 2025IN00Yes
Oct 29, 2024MI01Yes
May 31, 2024TX01No
May 2, 2024TN00Yes
Oct 25, 2022IL00Yes
Mar 18, 2022TX00Yes
Mar 4, 2022TX00Yes
Sep 7, 2021TX01Yes
Mar 28, 2021IN02Yes
Mar 10, 2021KY01Yes