Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1476744

TCH INC

OZARK, AL 63

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 33.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 21 vehicle and 75 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

40.0% · 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 25.2 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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
≈2.1 / 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
18
Inspections · 24 mo
75
Annualized
≈38 / yr
Coverage
≈2.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

78%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
38%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
86%
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
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance27 · 5 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance17
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance16 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance13
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance12 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance12
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance10
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance9 · 7 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving8

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 143 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 9 total · 1 in 24 mo

9
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20244014
20221001
20161111
20151001
20142022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
09/17/2024AL01Yes
07/09/2024AL00Yes
01/31/2024AL00Yes
01/25/2024AL00Yes
08/09/2022AL00Yes
09/30/2016AL11Yes
02/11/2015GA00Yes
08/15/2014AL01Yes
04/17/2014AL01Yes