Carrier profile · USDOT 518087 · MC-216868 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

S & D Cartages Company

49 power unitsavg 8.6 yrLocal · 2 statesLAKE ORION, MI78/100
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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 11.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 30.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 9 vehicle and 23 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 25.0 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

23 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 4

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
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 49-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
49
Inspections · 24 mo
23
Annualized
≈12 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

18%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
96%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
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.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving32 · 1 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness20 · 7 OOS
  • 391.45 No medical examination / expiredDriver Fitness4 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 44 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 32 total · 3 in 24 mo

32
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20251001
20241001
20234004
20213013
20204014
20193013
20141001
20132012
20122021
20081001
20053003
20011011
20001010
19991010
19982020
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 13, 2026OH00Yes
Mar 3, 2026MI00Yes
Nov 20, 2025MI00Yes
Jul 5, 2024MI00Yes
Sep 20, 2023MI00Yes
Sep 14, 2023MI00Yes
Apr 26, 2023MI00Yes
Jan 17, 2023MI00Yes
Dec 3, 2021MI00Yes
Sep 29, 2021MI02Yes
Apr 16, 2021IN00Yes
Aug 27, 2020MI00Yes
Feb 20, 2020MI00Yes
Feb 18, 2020MI00Yes
Jan 2, 2020MI01Yes
Dec 10, 2019MI00Yes
Jul 2, 2019MI01Yes
Apr 18, 2019MI00Yes
Dec 18, 2014MI00Yes
Nov 25, 2013MI00Yes
Jun 11, 2013MI02Yes
Nov 26, 2012MI01Yes
Nov 7, 2012MI01No
Mar 18, 2008MI00Yes
Dec 9, 2005MI00Yes