Carrier profile · USDOT 2119348 · MC-738667 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

TRI-LINES EXPRESS INC

20 power unitsavg 9.3 yrNational · 19 statesDIAMOND BAR, CA75/100
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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 24.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 169 vehicle and 257 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

28.6% · 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 3.9 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

252 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 21

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈6.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
20
Inspections · 24 mo
260
Annualized
≈130 / yr
Coverage
≈6.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

79%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
95%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
58%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
75%
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.

  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance73 · 24 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving59 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance52 · 6 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance35 · 30 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance31 · 11 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance25 · 6 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance24 · 2 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance24 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance21 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance20 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

160 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 8, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

70ELD device issues
15No log / no ELD
47False logs
11Drove over hours

Trending worse — 71% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 22 total · 2 in 24 mo

22
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20243003
20232002
20222002
20213003
20204004
20193013
20182012
20171001
20151101
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 11, 2025CA00Yes
Sep 4, 2024CA00Yes
Apr 4, 2024OK00Yes
Feb 11, 2024TX00Yes
Nov 9, 2023OK00Yes
Jul 14, 2023SC00Yes
Oct 9, 2022GA00Yes
Apr 7, 2022NM00Yes
Nov 7, 2021NC00Yes
Sep 14, 2021MO00Yes
May 19, 2021IL00Yes
Oct 9, 2020GA00Yes
Sep 20, 2020CA00Yes
Aug 11, 2020MO00Yes
Feb 11, 2020MS00Yes
Nov 21, 2019CA00Yes
Nov 2, 2019OK01Yes
Oct 7, 2019TN00Yes
Oct 7, 2018OK03Yes
Mar 16, 2018AZ00Yes
Oct 24, 2017IL00Yes
Sep 27, 2015KS10Yes