Carrier profile · USDOT 751462 · MC-377543 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Lykes Cartage Company LLC

61 power unitsRegional · 3 statesROUND ROCK, TX68/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-377543 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkslykescartage.comFMCSA SAFER

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 36.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 9.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 11 vehicle and 11 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

40.0% · 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 15.2 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

11 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 4

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 61-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
61
Inspections · 24 mo
12
Annualized
≈6 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
53%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
75%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
68%
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.

  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 8 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 16, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 40 total · 6 in 24 mo

40
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252021
20244104
20221011
20211001
20202021
20131001
20124023
20112012
20104014
20091011
20083003
20071011
20064014
20053013
20044024
20002012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 12, 2026TX00Yes
Oct 20, 2025TX01Yes
Oct 15, 2025TX09No
Dec 18, 2024TX00Yes
Dec 6, 2024AZ00Yes
Nov 27, 2024FL10Yes
Aug 9, 2024TX00Yes
Oct 19, 2022TX02Yes
Oct 29, 2021TX00Yes
Nov 18, 2020TX01No
Jul 31, 2020TX02Yes
Jun 7, 2013TX00Yes
Jul 17, 2012TX00Yes
Jun 15, 2012FL00Yes
Mar 7, 2012TX01Yes
Jan 24, 2012TX02No
Apr 18, 2011FL00Yes
Mar 1, 2011OK01Yes
Jul 15, 2010CO00Yes
Apr 7, 2010TX00Yes
Mar 10, 2010TX01Yes
Jan 6, 2010TX00Yes
Jan 13, 2009CO01Yes
Jul 24, 2008CO00Yes
Jun 26, 2008TX00Yes