Carrier profile · USDOT 399953 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

DISTRIBUTOR OPERATIONS INC

DBA INTERSTATE BATTERIES

196 power unitsavg 8.4 yrNational · 25 statesDALLAS, TX94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 9.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 173 vehicle and 208 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

10.3% · 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 2.6 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

197 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '26 · 19

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
≈0.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 196-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
196
Inspections · 24 mo
208
Annualized
≈104 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

2%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
80%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
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.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving71 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance46 · 5 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance15 · 9 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving11 · 0 OOS
  • 177.834 Other violationOther9 · 9 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness8 · 8 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 6, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 60 total · 4 in 24 mo

60
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253023
20241001
20235015
20225005
20212012
20202002
20194024
20183013
20171001
20165005
20151001
20142002
20134034
20112012
20104023
20093003
20083003
20073013
20052012
20041001
20031001
20021001
20011010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 28, 2026CA00Yes
Jul 1, 2025TX01Yes
Jun 3, 2025MI00Yes
Feb 20, 2025VA02Yes
Jun 3, 2024MI00Yes
Oct 13, 2023PA00Yes
Aug 15, 2023IL00Yes
Apr 10, 2023CA00Yes
Feb 28, 2023CA00Yes
Feb 14, 2023CA01Yes
Dec 19, 2022MS00Yes
Sep 7, 2022CA00Yes
Feb 24, 2022MI00Yes
Jan 25, 2022NJ00Yes
Jan 11, 2022TX00Yes
Nov 3, 2021PA00Yes
Sep 9, 2021MI01Yes
Feb 26, 2020NY00Yes
Jan 28, 2020FL00Yes
Dec 23, 2019MS00Yes
Oct 14, 2019TX04Yes
Apr 1, 2019MI01Yes
Jan 24, 2019CA00Yes
Sep 28, 2018TX00Yes
Mar 12, 2018AR01Yes