Carrier profile · USDOT 2109728 · MC-735576 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

US Truck Lines Inc

35 power unitsavg 8.3 yrMulti-region · 13 statesFORT WORTH, TX81/100
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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 24.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 12.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 65 vehicle and 79 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

16.7% · 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 3.1 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

79 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 35-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
35
Inspections · 24 mo
79
Annualized
≈40 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

65%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
89%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
19%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
76%
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 Driving29 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance28 · 6 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance25 · 6 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance17 · 8 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

54 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 9, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

25ELD device issues
8No log / no ELD
9False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 88% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 7 total · 2 in 24 mo

7
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261010
20251011
20211001
20201011
20193013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 21, 2026OK01No
Dec 20, 2025CA01Yes
Feb 6, 2021TX00Yes
Jul 8, 2020OK01Yes
Nov 7, 2019TX00Yes
Sep 15, 2019NV01Yes
May 17, 2019CA00Yes