Carrier profile · USDOT 471162 · MC-250523 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

SMS Trucking Inc

30 power unitsavg 3.8 yrNational · 18 statesCABOT, AR88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-250523 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkssmstrucking.orgFMCSA 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 11.8%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 — 17 vehicle and 49 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 8.4 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

47 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 6

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 30-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
49
Annualized
≈25 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

52%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
55%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
7%
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 Driving19 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

13 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 3, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

7ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
5Drove over hours

1 ELD violation in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 37 total · 4 in 24 mo

37
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20251001
20241001
20232012
20224014
20212012
20203013
20192122
20181001
20175015
20151001
20133013
20121001
20113013
20102002
20081001
20072012
20061001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 18, 2026AR00Yes
Jan 8, 2026AR00Yes
Dec 3, 2025IN00Yes
Sep 27, 2024MO00Yes
Nov 6, 2023IL02Yes
Jun 6, 2023AR00Yes
Dec 20, 2022MO00Yes
Aug 19, 2022SC01Yes
Jul 14, 2022AR00Yes
Jun 22, 2022AR00Yes
Jun 21, 2021MI00Yes
May 6, 2021AR01Yes
Nov 4, 2020AR01Yes
Aug 30, 2020IN00Yes
May 14, 2020IA00Yes
Nov 27, 2019AR01Yes
Nov 7, 2019IL13Yes
Jun 14, 2018MO00Yes
Sep 29, 2017TX00Yes
Aug 29, 2017MI00Yes
Jul 27, 2017MI00Yes
Apr 27, 2017IN01Yes
Feb 24, 2017IL00Yes
Nov 24, 2015AR00Yes
Sep 1, 2013AR01Yes