Carrier profile · USDOT 144578 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Dunlap & Kyle Tire Company Inc

DBA DUNLAP & KYLE TIRE CO

58 power unitsavg 4.7 yrMulti-region · 9 statesMADISON, TN94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksdktire.comFMCSA SAFER

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 3.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 60 vehicle and 105 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 8.0 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

101 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 8

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
≈0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 58-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
58
Inspections · 24 mo
105
Annualized
≈53 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

15%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
74%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
65%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
4%
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 Driving21 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 4 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 2 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 6, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

3ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
2False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 21 total · 5 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253013
20241001
20231001
20222012
20203013
20192002
20182022
20141001
20131001
20092012
20041001
20001001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 12, 2026TN00Yes
May 21, 2025KY00Yes
May 15, 2025KY00Yes
May 7, 2025AL02Yes
Oct 10, 2024KY00Yes
Jul 13, 2023NC00Yes
Nov 15, 2022TN00Yes
Sep 1, 2022TN01Yes
Jun 18, 2020TN00Yes
Jun 15, 2020TN00Yes
Feb 10, 2020KY01Yes
Jun 5, 2019TN00Yes
Apr 12, 2019KY00Yes
Nov 29, 2018KY01Yes
Jul 25, 2018GA01Yes
Feb 17, 2014KY00Yes
Sep 4, 2013GA00Yes
Aug 11, 2009TN01Yes
Apr 22, 2009TN00Yes
Dec 16, 2004TN00Yes
Jun 9, 2000AL00Yes