Carrier profile · USDOT 3617570 · MC-1526136 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Tri Counties Trucking

27 power unitsavg 6.9 yrRegional · 3 statesYUBA CITY, CA94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1526136 ACTIVE
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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 20.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 44 vehicle and 57 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 13.9 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

65 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 27-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
27
Inspections · 24 mo
65
Annualized
≈33 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

24%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
63%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
57%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
32%
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 Driving58 · 3 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

21 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 23, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
6False logs
6Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 7 total · 5 in 24 mo

7
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20254014
20242022
20231011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 2, 2025CA00Yes
Nov 14, 2025CA00Yes
Sep 13, 2025CA00Yes
May 18, 2025CA01Yes
Oct 25, 2024CA01Yes
May 21, 2024CA02Yes
Sep 5, 2023CA01Yes