Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 668418

TECHLINE INC

AUSTIN, TX 81

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 28.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 46 vehicle and 59 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

35.7% · 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 3.0 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 35-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
35
Inspections · 24 mo
59
Annualized
≈30 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

16%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
28%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
17%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
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 Driving24
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance18 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 10 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance10
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance10
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness4 · 4 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

9 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/26/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

7ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 22 total · 3 in 24 mo

22
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20242002
20232012
20221011
20215015
20203012
20171001
20092012
20051001
20042022
20011011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/11/2026LA00Yes
04/26/2026AR01Yes
10/23/2024TX00Yes
05/15/2024NM00Yes
11/10/2023TX01Yes
06/08/2023AR00Yes
09/21/2022NM01Yes
09/10/2021AR00Yes
07/12/2021TX01Yes
06/30/2021KS00Yes
06/18/2021MO00Yes
03/11/2021LA00Yes
09/27/2020TX01No
08/13/2020TX00Yes
07/01/2020AR00Yes
11/09/2017LA00Yes
05/20/2009TX00Yes
02/12/2009KS01Yes
06/30/2005TX00Yes
08/09/2004TX02Yes
07/09/2004TX02Yes
02/09/2001TX02Yes