Carrier profile · USDOT 3579439 · MC-1208548 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

MTZ FREIGHT LLC

6 power unitsavg 11.3 yrMulti-region · 10 statesMONTE ALTO, TX74/100
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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 41.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 26.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 12 vehicle and 23 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

57.1% · 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 27.6 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

23 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '25 · 3

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
6
Inspections · 24 mo
23
Annualized
≈12 / yr
Coverage
≈1.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

81%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
97%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
76%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
95%
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 Driving24 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance24 · 5 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 5 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance6 · 6 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance4 · 4 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 2, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
2False logs
4Drove over hours

Crash history· 3 total · 1 in 24 mo

3
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
0
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20232002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 3, 2025NJ00Yes
Dec 21, 2023PA00Yes
Aug 9, 2023PA00Yes