Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 562917

AMERI-LINE INC

COLUMBIA STATION, OH 86

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 60.0%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 — 5 vehicle and 12 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 58.3 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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.

Expected band

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.4 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 16-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 16
Inspections · 24 mo: 12
Annualized: ≈6 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

19%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

48%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

11.71measure

SMS · per-BASIC

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.

393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3
395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance3
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance1
393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1
393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 08/14/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues

0No log / no ELD

0False logs

3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 23 total · 0 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Injury	Tow
2022	1	0	1
2021	1	1	1
2020	1	0	1
2013	1	1	0
2012	1	0	1
2011	2	1	2
2010	1	0	1
2008	1	0	1
2007	3	0	3
2006	1	1	1
2005	1	1	1
2004	2	1	1
2003	4	3	4
2000	1	0	1
1999	1	1	1
1997	1	1	0

Date	State	Injuries	Tow-away
02/10/2022	IN	0	Yes
03/22/2021	OH	1	Yes
11/17/2020	VA	0	Yes
11/01/2013	OH	1	No
11/06/2012	WV	0	Yes
09/13/2011	OH	2	Yes
09/08/2011	VA	0	Yes
09/17/2010	OH	0	Yes
02/24/2008	IN	0	Yes
12/06/2007	MO	0	Yes
07/31/2007	TN	0	Yes
06/27/2007	OH	0	Yes
12/03/2006	MO	3	Yes
08/15/2005	MD	1	Yes
05/03/2004	OH	1	No
01/26/2004	NJ	0	Yes
09/08/2003	OH	1	Yes
06/09/2003	PA	2	Yes
05/30/2003	OH	1	Yes
02/17/2003	IN	0	Yes
03/18/2000	OH	0	Yes
08/03/1999	IN	2	Yes
06/18/1997	OH	1	No