Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2210521

LIGHTNING LOGISTICS INC

FORT MILL, SC 87

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 25.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 131 vehicle and 308 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

22.2% · 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 3.5 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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
≈1.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 100-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
100
Inspections · 24 mo
308
Annualized
≈154 / yr
Coverage
≈1.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

48%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
70%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
76%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
58%
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 Driving169 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance26 · 19 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance24 · 8 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance19 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance18 · 5 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness15 · 6 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance15
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance13
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance13
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance9

ELD & hours-of-service

69 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/08/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

40ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
18False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 73% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 21 total · 13 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
13
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20259029
20246016
20231001
20221011
20211011
20191001
20181001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/09/2026AL00Yes
06/18/2025ND00Yes
06/12/2025AL02Yes
05/05/2025NY00Yes
04/02/2025CA00Yes
03/19/2025MN01Yes
03/17/2025OR00Yes
02/18/2025IL00Yes
02/12/2025NV00Yes
02/12/2025NC00Yes
10/29/2024MN00Yes
09/21/2024NC00Yes
08/01/2024LA01Yes
07/24/2024TX00Yes
04/22/2024LA00Yes
04/19/2024PA00Yes
03/17/2023PA00Yes
04/22/2022AL01Yes
05/03/2021SD01Yes
02/03/2019CA00Yes
04/18/2018MN00Yes