Carrier profile · USDOT 2889410 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

PRO TECH UTILITIES INC

DBA GRID-LOCK INC

10 power unitsavg 9.5 yrLocal · 1 statesLINTHICUM, MD74/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNHAZMAT

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 54.5%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 40.9%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 22 vehicle and 22 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 22.4 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

21 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '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.

Well-monitored

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈1.1 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Within the expected band for a 10-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.

Registered power units: 10
Inspections · 24 mo: 22
Annualized: ≈11 / yr
Coverage: ≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-08-01

79%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

95%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

90%

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 Maintenance21 · 3 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance17 · 0 OOS
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving7 · 0 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving7 · 0 OOS
393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness6 · 5 OOS
393.41 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness4 · 4 OOS
393.81 HornVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 28 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
2023		1	0	0	1
2018		1	0	1	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Apr 24, 2023	VA	0	0	Yes
Sep 14, 2018	MD	0	2	Yes