Carrier profile · USDOT 1070198 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Tate Services Inc

39 power unitsavg 5 yrLocal · 1 statesHUNTSVILLE, AL74/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkstateservices.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 55.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 20 vehicle and 34 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

88.9% · 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 3.2 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

31 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 5

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 39-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
39
Inspections · 24 mo
34
Annualized
≈17 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

22%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
92%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
87%
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 Maintenance16 · 0 OOS
  • 393.134 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 12 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving3 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness3 · 1 OOS
  • 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 48 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 29 total · 5 in 24 mo

29
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252012
20246016
20231001
20224004
20213013
20203003
20181001
20172002
20163023
20153033
20061011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 23, 2025AL01Yes
Mar 3, 2025AL00Yes
Dec 11, 2024AL01Yes
Oct 8, 2024AL00Yes
Oct 1, 2024AL00Yes
Jul 11, 2024AL00Yes
Apr 24, 2024AL00Yes
Jan 2, 2024AL00Yes
Feb 6, 2023AL00Yes
Dec 20, 2022AL00Yes
Nov 5, 2022AL00Yes
Oct 5, 2022AL00Yes
Aug 18, 2022AL00Yes
Oct 19, 2021AL00Yes
Sep 30, 2021AL00Yes
Jul 7, 2021AL01Yes
Oct 28, 2020AL00Yes
Sep 22, 2020AL00Yes
Mar 24, 2020AL00Yes
Oct 19, 2018AL00Yes
Dec 5, 2017AL00Yes
Jul 11, 2017AL00Yes
Oct 11, 2016AL01Yes
Aug 29, 2016AL01Yes
Jul 25, 2016AL00Yes