Carrier profile · USDOT 2642590 · MC-921146 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

TEX-Q EXPRESS INC

19 power unitsavg 11.4 yrRegional · 4 statesHOUSTON, TX62/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-921146 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 39.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 15.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 51 vehicle and 58 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

53.8% · 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 2.6 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

56 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 19-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
19
Inspections · 24 mo
58
Annualized
≈29 / yr
Coverage
≈1.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

3%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
88%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
79%
Driver Fitness
Alert
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
83%
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 Maintenance41 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance20 · 15 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving17 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance16 · 2 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance15 · 2 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance14 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance14 · 7 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness12 · 11 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

22 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 12, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

7ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
9False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 26 total · 3 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262021
20251011
20241001
20233003
20214014
20203023
20192022
20184124
20174034
20162002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 8, 2026TX03Yes
Feb 23, 2026TX01No
Aug 13, 2025TX01Yes
Feb 8, 2024TX00Yes
Dec 15, 2023TX00Yes
Aug 1, 2023TX00Yes
May 4, 2023TX00Yes
Oct 14, 2021IN00Yes
Jul 26, 2021LA01Yes
Apr 15, 2021KS00Yes
Feb 5, 2021FL00Yes
Aug 2, 2020TX01Yes
Jul 24, 2020IN00Yes
Jan 20, 2020TX01Yes
Dec 9, 2019TX02Yes
Jul 13, 2019TX01Yes
Oct 26, 2018TX00Yes
Jun 30, 2018TX00Yes
Feb 28, 2018TX12Yes
Jan 4, 2018TX01Yes
Nov 9, 2017NM00Yes
Nov 1, 2017TX01Yes
Nov 1, 2017TX01Yes
Sep 25, 2017CO01Yes
Oct 20, 2016TX00Yes