Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1512588

VORTEX SERVICES LLC

HOUSTON, TX 88

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 10.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 69 vehicle and 88 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12.5% · 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 12.3 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 180-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
180
Inspections · 24 mo
95
Annualized
≈48 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

3%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
28%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
72%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
31%
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 Driving32
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance23 · 4 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance9
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance8
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness7 · 7 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving7
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance6 · 2 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance4

ELD & hours-of-service

14 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/20/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
4No log / no ELD
2False logs
2Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 8 total · 2 in 24 mo

8
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251001
20241011
20224024
20171001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/05/2026VA00Yes
10/14/2025PA00Yes
05/10/2024NJ06Yes
10/24/2022FL00Yes
10/04/2022NY01Yes
06/17/2022FL00Yes
03/21/2022PA02Yes
01/31/2017FL00Yes