Carrier profile · USDOT 1006481 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

COTECO DISTRIBUTING CO INC

DBA COAST COUNTIES PETERBILT PACLEASE

131 power unitsavg 7.8 yrRegional · 3 statesSAN JOSE, CA88/100
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 16.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 103 vehicle and 117 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

26.1% · 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 6.9 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

107 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 10

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.

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 131-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
131
Inspections · 24 mo
117
Annualized
≈59 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

18%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
18%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
72%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
31%
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 Driving40 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 12 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 3, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 75% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 38 total · 5 in 24 mo

38
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253013
20243003
20233013
20221010
20202012
20185115
20171001
20163013
20152002
20142002
20132012
20123113
20101001
20091011
20081001
20071001
20061001
20031001
20011001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 14, 2026CA00Yes
Oct 17, 2025CA00Yes
Sep 3, 2025CA00Yes
Jun 2, 2025CA01Yes
Nov 1, 2024CA00Yes
Apr 11, 2024CA00Yes
Mar 26, 2024AZ00Yes
Dec 22, 2023AZ01Yes
Sep 20, 2023CA00Yes
Aug 12, 2023CA00Yes
Feb 10, 2022CA01No
Jan 31, 2020CA00Yes
Jan 31, 2020CA01Yes
Sep 16, 2018CA00Yes
Jun 21, 2018CA00Yes
May 24, 2018CA00Yes
Jan 23, 2018CA00Yes
Jan 12, 2018CA11Yes
Mar 25, 2017CA00Yes
Dec 27, 2016CA00Yes
May 11, 2016CA02Yes
Jan 4, 2016AZ00Yes
Dec 21, 2015CA00Yes
Dec 21, 2015CA00Yes
Sep 22, 2014CA00Yes