Carrier profile · USDOT 2475463 · MC-856263 · Updated Jun 19, 2026

SAFE LINE INC

75 power unitsavg 5.9 yrNational · 38 statesWHEELING, IL87/100
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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 22.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 76 vehicle and 161 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

37.1% · 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 8.8 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

157 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 75-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
75
Inspections · 24 mo
161
Annualized
≈81 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

45%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
66%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
62%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
49%
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 Driving64 · 3 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance16 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 10 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 3 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

20 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 27, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

11ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
6False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 91% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 11 total · 3 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20244014
20222012
20211001
20191001
20161011
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 31, 2026PA01Yes
Nov 13, 2024AZ01Yes
Oct 5, 2024VA00Yes
Jun 17, 2024FL00Yes
Jan 16, 2024IA00Yes
Dec 7, 2022MA02Yes
Sep 11, 2022CO00Yes
Dec 17, 2021TN00Yes
Feb 21, 2019MN00Yes
Oct 17, 2016TN01Yes
Aug 26, 2015NC00Yes