Carrier profile · USDOT 470959 · MC-313982 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

L K S Transportation LLC

541 power unitsavg 6.5 yrMulti-region · 8 statesCOLUMBUS, OH82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-313982 ACTIVERATED CONDITIONALHAZMAT
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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 11.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 51 vehicle and 81 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

23.1% · 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 12.0 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

78 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 6

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 541-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
541
Inspections · 24 mo
81
Annualized
≈41 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

16%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
16%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
76%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
11%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
43%
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 Driving52 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance24 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving16 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness4 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 25, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

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

Crash history· 49 total · 10 in 24 mo

49
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263013
20255015
20242002
20225005
20211011
20202002
20193013
20184004
20173013
20161001
20152011
20141001
20132002
20122002
20112012
20091001
20082002
20071001
20062002
20041010
20031011
20021001
20011001
19971111
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 17, 2026CO00Yes
Feb 16, 2026IN02Yes
Jan 20, 2026OH00Yes
Dec 18, 2025OH00Yes
Dec 9, 2025PA00Yes
May 28, 2025IN01Yes
Apr 24, 2025OH00Yes
Mar 14, 2025CO00Yes
Oct 28, 2024IN00Yes
Aug 23, 2024IN00Yes
Dec 15, 2022MI00Yes
Dec 13, 2022WI00Yes
Oct 12, 2022CO00Yes
May 27, 2022WI00Yes
Mar 18, 2022CO00Yes
Jun 22, 2021IN01Yes
Jul 30, 2020WI00Yes
Jun 2, 2020IN00Yes
Nov 13, 2019OH01Yes
Sep 4, 2019IN00Yes
Feb 22, 2019IN00Yes
Dec 6, 2018WI00Yes
Nov 20, 2018IN00Yes
Feb 19, 2018IN00Yes
Jan 5, 2018OH00Yes