Carrier profile · USDOT 2455716 · MC-842838 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

PK Turbo LLC

9 power unitsavg 6.6 yrNational · 21 statesMATTHEWS, NC82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-842838 ACTIVE
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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 15.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 12.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 20 vehicle and 33 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 18.8 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

33 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 5

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
9
Inspections · 24 mo
33
Annualized
≈17 / yr
Coverage
≈1.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

47%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
62%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
88%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
47%
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.

  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance16 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness4 · 4 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

44 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 28, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

32ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
7False logs
4Drove over hours

Trending worse — 72% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 13 total · 4 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252112
20243013
20231001
20222012
20211001
20201001
20192002
20171001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 7, 2025LA00Yes
Sep 26, 2025MI37Yes
Nov 26, 2024OH00Yes
Nov 18, 2024CA00Yes
Jun 14, 2024TX01Yes
Mar 16, 2023IN00Yes
Feb 23, 2022NM03Yes
Jan 7, 2022IN00Yes
Dec 6, 2021FL00Yes
Oct 20, 2020IN00Yes
Oct 3, 2019NY00Yes
Apr 27, 2019MA00Yes
Jul 25, 2017MO00Yes