Carrier profile · USDOT 188121 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Tractor & Equipment Company

185 power unitsavg 6.1 yrRegional · 7 statesBIRMINGHAM, AL88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linkstec1943.comFMCSA SAFER

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 8.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 37 vehicle and 84 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 13.3 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

81 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 8

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 185-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
185
Inspections · 24 mo
84
Annualized
≈42 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

15%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
11%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
7%
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 Driving12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness4 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 11, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 47 total · 10 in 24 mo

47
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
15
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20255005
20245005
20234014
20224024
20212012
20191001
20181011
20171011
20151001
20142112
20132012
20123013
20101001
20091001
20082002
20061011
20051011
20032022
20021011
20011001
20001011
19972002
19961001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 26, 2026GA00Yes
Feb 17, 2026GA00Yes
Oct 12, 2025AL00Yes
Sep 26, 2025GA00Yes
Sep 26, 2025GA00Yes
Mar 17, 2025AL00Yes
Feb 14, 2025AL00Yes
Dec 31, 2024AL00Yes
Oct 24, 2024GA00Yes
Oct 22, 2024GA00Yes
May 16, 2024AL00Yes
Feb 20, 2024GA00Yes
Dec 20, 2023AL00Yes
May 25, 2023AL00Yes
May 23, 2023AL02Yes
Mar 13, 2023GA00Yes
Nov 15, 2022GA00Yes
Sep 23, 2022AL01Yes
May 26, 2022AL01Yes
Apr 8, 2022GA00Yes
Nov 11, 2021GA02Yes
Aug 5, 2021GA00Yes
Jun 23, 2019AL00Yes
Nov 26, 2018AL01Yes
Nov 13, 2017AL01Yes