Carrier profile · USDOT 2406403 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

DARNELL CONSTRUCTION LLC

29 power unitsavg 6 yrLocal · 2 statesSAN ANGELO, TX94/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN

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 10.0%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 9.1%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 10 vehicle and 11 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 43.3 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

11 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 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

≈0.2 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 29-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: 29
Inspections · 24 mo: 11
Annualized: ≈6 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Driver Fitness

1.56measure

SMS · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

26%

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 Maintenance10 · 2 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS
393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
393.81 HornVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 20 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 2 total · 0 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year		Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2016		1	0	1	1
2014		1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Jun 23, 2016	TX	0	1	Yes
Mar 15, 2014	TX	0	0	Yes