TRANSCARGA CORP
USDOT 4272757MC-Docket MC1744862HOUSTON, TX
Review before tendering7 power units
TRANSCARGA CORP (USDOT 4272757) in HOUSTON, TX — has findings to review before tendering. FMCSA authority, fleet size, BASIC safety measures, crash and inspection history.
- Has active operating authority that's tenderable today (common or contract).
- No pending authority revocation.
- Not under an uncleared federal out-of-service or safety action.
- BIPD on file is $750,000 — below your $1,000,000 floor (federal general-freight minimum is $750,000).
- No cargo insurance on file. Required for many shipper contracts.
- No history of insurance lapses.
- Unrated by FMCSA. Most carriers are unrated — unrated is not the same as unsafe.
- No BASIC alerts in any of the five public SMS categories.
- Driver and vehicle out-of-service rate is above the national roadside average.
- 1 preventable crash(es) in the last 24 months; recordable crash rate not available.
- No fatal crashes in the last 24 months.
- No link to a prior revoked authority.
- Crash Indicator and Hazmat Compliance BASICs are statutorily withheld from public SMS under the FAST Act — their absence is not a clean record; use the crash-risk signals above instead.
Built from FMCSA's public Safety Management System data — guidance, not legal advice. Verify directly with the carrier and your cargo policy before tendering.
Authority
- Common authority
- Active
- Contract authority
- Not applicable
Safety & BASIC scorecard
BASIC safety measures
Unsafe driving
No alert
measure 0
Hours of service
No alert
measure 3.36
Driver fitness
No alert
measure 0
Controlled substance
No alert
measure 0
Vehicle maintenance
No alert
measure 17.62
Under the FAST Act, FMCSA publishes an absolute per-category measure (not a 0–100 percentile) for these five BASICs — the alert flag, not the raw number, is the risk signal. The Crash Indicator and Hazmat Compliance BASICs are statutorily withheld from public view.
Last 24 months
0
Fatalities
2
Injuries
1
Crashes
5
Inspections
3
OOS inspections
8
OOS violations
Insurance
- BIPD on file
- $750,000 below $1M baseline
- Cargo insurance
- No
- Bond on file
- No
Fleet
- Power units
- 7
- Total drivers
- 7
- Years in business
- 2
- Hazmat authority
- No
Crash risk
- Preventable crashes (24 mo)
- 1 of 1 total crash(es)
- Recordable crash rate
- Not available
- Driver OOS rate
- 28.6%Above national
- Vehicle OOS rate
- 66.7%Above national
The official Crash Indicator BASIC is withheld from public SMS under the FAST Act — these derived signals stand in for it; their absence is not a clean record.
Compliance & history
- Reincarnation / chameleon
- No prior revoked authority
- Involuntary revocations
- None on file
- Physical address
- No address flags
- Federal OOS / safety action
- None on file
- MCS-150 self-report
- 2026-03-02
- Insurance lapse history
- No lapses on record
- Last compliance review
- None on file
Inspection history (all-time)
10
Inspections
5
OOS inspections
52
Violations
8
OOS violations
0
Post-accident
Record spans 2025-07-03 → 2026-05-22.
Crash history (last 24 months)
2026-02-11
TX
2 injuredTow-away
Violation pattern (all-time, by area)
| Area (49 CFR part) | Violations | Out of service | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
Vehicle parts & maintenance 393
|
37 | 4 | 2026-05-22 |
Hours of service 395
|
7 | 3 | 2026-01-12 |
Unsafe driving 392
|
7 | 0 | 2026-05-22 |
Vehicle inspection & repair 396
|
1 | 1 | 2026-05-12 |
Recent violations (last 24 months, worst first)
| Date | Category | Violation | OOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tire-other tread depth less than 2/32 of inch measured in a major tread groove | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable head lamps | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Hose or Tubing Chafing and/or Kinking Under Vehicle | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Out of Adjustment - Roto Clamp (Short & Long) DD-3 or Bolt | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | CMV manufactured after 10/19/94 has an automatic airbrake adjustment system that fails to compensate for wear | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Hose or Tubing Chafing and/or Kinking - Connection to Power Unit | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable Required Lamp | — |
| 2026-05-12 | Vehicle Maintenance | BRAKES OUT OF SERVICE: The number of defective brakes is equal to or greater than 20 percent of the service brakes on th | OOS |
| 2026-04-28 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tire-other tread depth less than 2/32 of inch measured in a major tread groove | — |
| 2026-04-28 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Hose or Tubing Chafing and/or Kinking - Connection to Power Unit | — |
| 2026-04-28 | Vehicle Maintenance | Wheel/rim cracked or broken | OOS |
| 2026-04-28 | Vehicle Maintenance | Wipers - Inoperative / missing / damaged wipers | — |
| 2026-03-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable head lamps | — |
| 2026-03-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | No/discharged/unsecured fire extinguisher | — |
| 2026-03-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | Damaged securement system/tiedowns | — |
| 2026-01-22 | Vehicle Maintenance | Flat tire or fabric exposed | OOS |
| 2026-01-22 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tire-ply or belt material exposed | — |
| 2026-01-12 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Drivers record of duty status not current | OOS |
| 2026-01-12 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driver failing to retain previous 7 days records of duty status | OOS |
| 2025-10-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative turn signal | OOS |
| 2025-10-02 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | No record of duty status when one is required (ELD Not Required) | OOS |
| 2025-10-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable head lamps | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable tail lamp | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperative/Defective Hazard Warning Lamp | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Damaged dunnage chocks cradles shoring bars blocking and bracing | OOS |
| 2025-10-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Inoperable Required Lamp | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | No/discharged/unsecured fire extinguisher | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Wipers - Inoperative / missing / damaged wipers | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driver failing to maintain ELD user's manual | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driver failing to maintain ELD instruction sheet | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driver failed to maintain instruction sheet for ELD malfunction reporting requirements | — |
| 2025-10-02 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | Driver failed to maintain supply of blank drivers records of duty status graph-grids | — |
Recent inspections (with violations, newest first)
Showing the 9 most-recent inspections that had violations. Clean inspections aren't listed here — they're counted in the all-time inspection totals above.
2026-05-22 5 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47E | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 53B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 95A | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2026-05-14 6 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55D1 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55D2 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55E | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47E | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 53B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45DLUV | — | — |
2026-05-12 12 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45B2PC | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45B2UV | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47E | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47E | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 53B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75C | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9H | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 3A1BOS | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2026-05-11 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2026-04-28 5 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 205A | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45B2PC | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75C | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78 | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2026-03-30 3 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 104B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9H | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 95A | — | — |
2026-01-22 3 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75A | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75A1 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75A1 | — | — |
2026-01-12 3 viols· 2 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 8F01 | OOS | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 8K2 | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2RG | — | — |
2025-10-02 13 viols· 3 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 104D | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 19 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9 | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9H | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9T | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9TS | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 95A | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 22H1 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 22H2 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 22H3 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 22H4 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 8A-NON-ELD | OOS | — |
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