Carrier profile · USDOT 2394419 · MC-823181 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Nick Holden Transport Company

38 power unitsavg 8.3 yrNational · 20 statesTUNNEL HILL, GA75/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-823181 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 23.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 38 vehicle and 84 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 22.4 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

84 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 9

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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 38-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
38
Inspections · 24 mo
84
Annualized
≈42 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

68%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
81%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
19%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
63%
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 Driving55 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance25 · 8 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance19 · 17 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance19 · 3 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance13 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

55 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 10, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

11ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
21False logs
18Drove over hours

Trending worse — 55% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 27 total · 7 in 24 mo

27
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263013
20252002
20244024
20235015
20223003
20211101
20201011
20193013
20182012
20173003
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 18, 2026GA02Yes
Apr 18, 2026GA00Yes
Feb 17, 2026TN00Yes
Apr 13, 2025TN00Yes
Feb 15, 2025TN00Yes
Oct 6, 2024SC04Yes
Sep 26, 2024VA00Yes
Jun 12, 2024MA02Yes
Feb 16, 2024KY00Yes
Jul 14, 2023DE00Yes
Mar 22, 2023GA01Yes
Jan 19, 2023TN00Yes
Jan 16, 2023TN00Yes
Jan 11, 2023GA00Yes
Nov 11, 2022SC00Yes
Apr 24, 2022IL00Yes
Feb 3, 2022IL00Yes
Jan 20, 2021VA20Yes
Mar 2, 2020TX01Yes
Aug 15, 2019UT01Yes
Apr 9, 2019TN00Yes
Mar 5, 2019VA00Yes
Oct 21, 2018GA01Yes
Oct 17, 2018GA00Yes
Dec 18, 2017GA00Yes