Carrier profile · USDOT 1807442 · MC-656931 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Capitol Truck Lines Inc

53 power unitsavg 4.6 yrMulti-region · 12 statesBAKERSFIELD, CA82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-656931 ACTIVE
Verified linkscapitoltrucklines.comFMCSA SAFER

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 17.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 12.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 88 vehicle and 189 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

5.6% · 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 7.1 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

185 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '25 · 13

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
53
Inspections · 24 mo
189
Annualized
≈95 / yr
Coverage
≈1.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

88%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
100%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
36%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
44%
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.

  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance109 · 33 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving84 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance32 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance29 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance22 · 9 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance19 · 0 OOS
  • 395.32 ELD — non-authenticated drivingHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance13 · 5 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 4 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

203 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 7, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

76ELD device issues
13No log / no ELD
88False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 58% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 38 total · 4 in 24 mo

38
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20252122
20243003
20234013
20218038
20204004
20193113
20181001
20175005
20151011
20143023
20122002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 19, 2026UT00Yes
Feb 17, 2026WY00Yes
Oct 16, 2025CA01Yes
Apr 14, 2025NV11Yes
May 21, 2024CA00Yes
Apr 5, 2024UT00Yes
Feb 18, 2024CA00Yes
Dec 24, 2023NV00Yes
Nov 15, 2023NV00Yes
Sep 15, 2023CA00Yes
Mar 7, 2023NV02No
Dec 16, 2021UT02Yes
Aug 11, 2021UT01Yes
Jun 9, 2021UT00Yes
Feb 10, 2021OK01Yes
Feb 10, 2021OK00Yes
Feb 10, 2021OK00Yes
Feb 9, 2021MO00Yes
Jan 10, 2021AZ00Yes
Oct 26, 2020NM00Yes
Jun 19, 2020OK00Yes
Jan 11, 2020IL00Yes
Jan 10, 2020GA00Yes
Nov 19, 2019WI11Yes
Apr 13, 2019CA00Yes