Carrier profile · USDOT 196861 · Updated Aug 4, 2026

Piedmont Natural Gas Company Inc

518 power unitsavg 5.3 yrLocal · 2 statesCHARLOTTE, NC94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksduke-energy.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 16.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 12 vehicle and 16 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

16.7% · 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 9.1 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

14 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 2

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
≈0.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 518-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
518
Inspections · 24 mo
16
Annualized
≈8 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
23%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
18%
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.

  • 393.130 Cargo securement — heavy vehicles/equipmentVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 383.95 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 21 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 20 total · 3 in 24 mo

20
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252002
20231001
20171001
20131001
20121001
20091001
20062022
20031001
19991011
19981011
19971011
19962022
19952012
19942002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 12, 2026NC00Yes
May 23, 2025TN00Yes
May 22, 2025NC00Yes
Feb 3, 2023NC00Yes
Dec 5, 2017NC00Yes
Mar 13, 2013SC00Yes
Sep 10, 2012TN00Yes
Jun 2, 2009NC00Yes
Aug 29, 2006SC03Yes
Aug 29, 2006SC03Yes
Mar 31, 2003NC00Yes
Jun 16, 1999NC01Yes
May 16, 1998NC01Yes
Apr 21, 1997NC03Yes
Nov 22, 1996NC01Yes
Nov 1, 1996NC01Yes
Jun 12, 1995NC00Yes
Mar 9, 1995NC01Yes
Dec 2, 1994NC00Yes
Feb 14, 1994NC00Yes