Carrier profile · USDOT 2673474 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

CORE LINEN SERVICES INC

111 power unitsavg 4.7 yrMulti-region · 14 statesHUNTERSVILLE, NC88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY
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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 16.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 142 vehicle and 214 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12.1% · 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 5.8 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

205 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 13

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
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 111-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
111
Inspections · 24 mo
214
Annualized
≈107 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

23%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
58%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
39%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
49%
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 Driving62 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance33 · 19 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance32 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance30 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving21 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance16 · 14 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 5 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 6 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

8ELD device issues
4No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 88% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 48 total · 8 in 24 mo

48
Total crashes
8
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
17
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20256135
20244014
20237017
2022121311
2021110411
20203023
20191001
20181001
20171011
20161011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 25, 2026AL01Yes
Sep 3, 2025VA00Yes
Aug 17, 2025FL11Yes
Mar 28, 2025CA01Yes
Mar 6, 2025CA01No
Feb 7, 2025WI00Yes
Feb 4, 2025AL00Yes
Dec 29, 2024GA01Yes
May 24, 2024CA00Yes
Feb 18, 2024CA00Yes
Feb 16, 2024CA00Yes
Nov 1, 2023WI00Yes
May 22, 2023GA01Yes
May 7, 2023AL00Yes
Apr 27, 2023IL00Yes
Apr 24, 2023NC00Yes
Mar 27, 2023FL00Yes
Mar 7, 2023SC00Yes
Dec 12, 2022CA00Yes
Dec 9, 2022FL00Yes
Nov 22, 2022CA00Yes
Nov 3, 2022CA00Yes
Oct 17, 2022FL01Yes
Oct 3, 2022AL01No
Oct 3, 2022AL01Yes