Carrier profile · USDOT 2108332 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

M K SMITH LLC

8 power unitsavg 18.3 yrLocal · 1 statesCARTERSVILLE, GA82/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
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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 50.0%24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 14.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 2 vehicle and 7 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

7 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 1

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 8-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
8
Inspections · 24 mo
7
Annualized
≈4 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

65%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
73%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
50%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
Vehicle Maintenance
24.66measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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 Driving5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.81 HornVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 12 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 13 total · 1 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20241001
20231001
20211011
20201001
20192012
20182011
20171001
20161011
20151001
20141001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 28, 2025GA00Yes
May 20, 2024GA00Yes
Nov 10, 2023GA00Yes
Jun 18, 2021GA01Yes
Nov 9, 2020GA00Yes
Jul 21, 2019GA02Yes
Apr 30, 2019GA00Yes
Jun 23, 2018GA00Yes
Mar 12, 2018GA01No
Jun 30, 2017GA00Yes
Aug 16, 2016GA01Yes
May 31, 2015GA00Yes
Mar 17, 2014GA00Yes