TRI-STATE COMMODITIES INC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 9.1% (24-mo)22 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.5% (24-mo)66 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

0.0% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 8.5 pts across the window — latest under the 22.26% national benchmark.

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
0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 43-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
43
Inspections · 24 mo
66
Annualized
33 / yr
Coverage
0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

39%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
64%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
33%
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 Driving36
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance13 · 2 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance9
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance7 · 4 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance3

ELD & hours-of-service

24 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/27/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

3ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
4False logs
7Drove over hours

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 47 total · 2 in 24 mo

47
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
18
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251011
20242002
20221001
20201001
20192002
20181001
20174014
20161011
20142002
20112002
20101001
20061011
20042012
20033023
20021001
19992011
19983013
19972012
19955034
19941010
19922010
19905021
19891011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/27/2026TX00Yes
08/17/2025CO01Yes
02/27/2024CO00Yes
01/21/2024CO00Yes
05/06/2022CO00Yes
11/04/2020CO00Yes
09/02/2019CO00Yes
01/21/2019WY00Yes
09/07/2018NE00Yes
10/05/2017NE00Yes
09/22/2017NE00Yes
07/25/2017CO00Yes
06/02/2017KS01Yes
10/13/2016WY01Yes
07/30/2014TX00Yes
03/15/2014CO00Yes
08/30/2011CO00Yes
01/31/2011WY00Yes
10/15/2010CO00Yes
10/24/2006CA01Yes
06/29/2004SD00Yes
04/07/2004CO01Yes
09/08/2003WY01Yes
08/25/2003WY01Yes
02/24/2003CO00Yes