Carrier profile · USDOT 1458150 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Southern Design and Materials Inc

41 power unitsavg 7.6 yrLocal · 1 statesALEXANDER CITY, AL80/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
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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 80.0%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 — 10 vehicle and 12 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

83.3% · 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 33.9 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

12 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '26 · 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
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 41-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
41
Inspections · 24 mo
12
Annualized
≈6 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
74%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance13 · 4 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.130 Cargo securement — heavy vehicles/equipmentVehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.205 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 24 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 11 total · 1 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20232002
20222002
20212002
20201001
20151011
20111010
20091011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 30, 2025AL00Yes
Aug 26, 2023GA00Yes
Mar 16, 2023AL00Yes
Aug 26, 2022AL00Yes
May 5, 2022AL00Yes
Jun 28, 2021AL00Yes
Feb 12, 2021NC00Yes
Mar 26, 2020GA00Yes
Sep 4, 2015AL02Yes
Aug 16, 2011AL01No
Jan 23, 2009AL01Yes