Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1446129

TRINITY DISTRIBUTIONS LLC

HOUSTON, TX 81

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 26.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 93 vehicle and 113 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

30.2% · 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 12.5 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 58-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
58
Inspections · 24 mo
114
Annualized
≈57 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

3%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
50%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
24%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
73%
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 Maintenance29 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance24 · 15 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance23 · 6 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance15 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance13
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance13 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance13
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving10
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance8
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

22 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/05/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

16ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
3False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 69% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 30 total · 7 in 24 mo

30
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264033
20252002
20241001
20232002
20221001
20211001
20202012
20192022
20184124
20163013
20152012
20141001
20131001
20121010
20111001
20102102
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/16/2026TX01Yes
06/12/2026TX01No
06/08/2026LA00Yes
01/22/2026LA01Yes
09/12/2025TX00Yes
07/08/2025TX00Yes
12/06/2024TX00Yes
10/23/2023TX00Yes
05/08/2023TX00Yes
02/26/2022TX00Yes
07/09/2021TX00Yes
10/27/2020TX00Yes
04/23/2020TX01Yes
04/11/2019TX01Yes
02/14/2019TX01Yes
11/29/2018OK01Yes
06/18/2018TX01Yes
03/15/2018TX10Yes
02/08/2018TX00Yes
11/08/2016TX01Yes
02/29/2016TX00Yes
01/29/2016TX00Yes
05/04/2015TX01Yes
01/22/2015LA00Yes
12/08/2014TX00Yes