Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 3302172

TECHWATER LLC

ODESSA, TX 44

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 85.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 46.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 14 vehicle and 15 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

80.0% · 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 18.6 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
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 19-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
19
Inspections · 24 mo
15
Annualized
≈8 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
11%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
99%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
100%
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 Maintenance96 · 6 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving62
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance44
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance42 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance41 · 27 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance28 · 14 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance25 · 4 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance25
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance21
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance20 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/24/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

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

Crash history· 7 total · 2 in 24 mo

7
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251101
20242022
20234024
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/17/2025TX10Yes
08/28/2024TX02Yes
05/13/2024TX01Yes
12/08/2023TX00Yes
09/16/2023TX01Yes
07/07/2023TX01Yes
07/05/2023TX00Yes