Carrier profile · USDOT 970198 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Nickelston Industries Inc

85 power unitsavg 5.5 yrLocal · 2 statesLAWSONVILLE, NC87/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNHAZMAT
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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 33.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 6 vehicle and 21 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

66.7% · 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 9.3 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

19 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 3

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 85-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
85
Inspections · 24 mo
21
Annualized
≈11 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

2%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
45%
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 Maintenance6 · 5 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 38 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 11 total · 2 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252012
20241001
20221011
20211011
20191011
20171001
20133013
20121011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Sep 16, 2025NC01Yes
Jan 5, 2025NC00Yes
Aug 1, 2024NC00Yes
Apr 22, 2022VA01Yes
May 26, 2021NC01Yes
Feb 5, 2019NC01Yes
Sep 26, 2017VA00Yes
Sep 9, 2013VA00Yes
Apr 28, 2013NC00Yes
Jan 14, 2013FL01Yes
Oct 18, 2012VA01Yes