Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 837538

TECATE LOGISTICS LLC

TECATE, CA 75

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 25.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 8 vehicle and 8 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 20.5 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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 6-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
6
Inspections · 24 mo
8
Annualized
≈4 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
53%
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 Driving14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 5 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.209 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 40 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 11 total · 0 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20221011
20202002
20152002
20081011
20072012
20051011
20031011
20021001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 11, 2022CA01Yes
Aug 31, 2020CA00Yes
Jul 15, 2020CA00Yes
Aug 24, 2015CA00Yes
Aug 10, 2015CA00Yes
Mar 17, 2008CA01Yes
Dec 26, 2007CA00Yes
Mar 27, 2007CA01Yes
Sep 6, 2005CA02Yes
Apr 9, 2003CA02Yes
Apr 30, 2002CA00Yes