Carrier profile · USDOT 736889 · MC-564026 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

T S Rideout Inc

DBA COTTONWOOD MOTORS

10 power unitsavg 12.9 yrRegional · 4 statesSALT LAKE CITY, UT82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-564026 ACTIVERATED 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 40.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 5 vehicle and 17 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 11.2 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

17 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '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
≈0.8 / 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
17
Annualized
≈9 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

8%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
37%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
46%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
31%
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 Driving18 · 0 OOS
  • 393.128 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Nov 26, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

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

Crash history· 10 total · 3 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253003
20221001
20211001
20172002
20141010
20121001
20101001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 14, 2025UT00Yes
Mar 18, 2025AZ00Yes
Jan 14, 2025CA00Yes
Mar 14, 2022AZ00Yes
Dec 3, 2021AZ00Yes
Nov 11, 2017NV00Yes
Jan 10, 2017WY00Yes
Nov 3, 2014CA01No
May 31, 2012UT00Yes
Dec 8, 2010UT00Yes