Carrier profile · USDOT 2544227 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

TEXAS PRIDE UTILITIES LLC

14 power unitsavg 11.9 yrLocal · 1 statesHOUSTON, TX74/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN

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 80.0%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 50.0%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 15 vehicle and 16 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

83.3% · 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 5.7 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

15 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 3

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.

Expected band

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.6 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 14-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 14
Inspections · 24 mo: 16
Annualized: ≈8 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

37%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

65%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

99%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

99%

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 Maintenance44 · 4 OOS
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving33 · 0 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance15 · 0 OOS
393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving10 · 0 OOS
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 7 OOS
393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness7 · 7 OOS
393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jul 29, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues

3No log / no ELD

0False logs

0Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 5 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Injury	Tow
2026	1	0	1
2022	1	0	1
2019	1	0	1
2017	1	1	1
2016	1	0	1

Date	State	Injuries	Tow-away
Feb 2, 2026	TX	0	Yes
Nov 26, 2022	TX	0	Yes
Sep 10, 2019	TX	0	Yes
Jun 26, 2017	TX	1	Yes
Jul 21, 2016	TX	0	Yes