Carrier profile · USDOT 2642025 · MC-920855 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Caracas Transportation Inc

117 power unitsavg 2.7 yrNational · 43 statesSOUTH ELGIN, IL94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-920855 ACTIVE
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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 10.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 169 vehicle and 337 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

22.5% · 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 2.5 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

328 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 22

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
≈1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 117-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
117
Inspections · 24 mo
337
Annualized
≈169 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

69%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
28%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
36%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
38%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
24%
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 Driving96 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance17 · 13 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 2 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Nov 21, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
3False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 75% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 25 total · 8 in 24 mo

25
Total crashes
8
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20265015
20251001
20248058
20231011
20224024
20194014
20182002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 26, 2026WY00Yes
May 23, 2026OR00Yes
Mar 19, 2026OK00Yes
Feb 28, 2026AZ00Yes
Jan 27, 2026KY01Yes
Oct 28, 2025AR00Yes
Oct 3, 2024AR01Yes
Sep 12, 2024SC00Yes
Jul 20, 2024NE02Yes
Jul 13, 2024IL00Yes
Jun 19, 2024TX01Yes
May 28, 2024IL01Yes
Jan 26, 2024CA01Yes
Jan 17, 2024AR00Yes
Aug 5, 2023FL02Yes
Oct 11, 2022ND01Yes
Aug 25, 2022WA00Yes
May 13, 2022ND00Yes
Feb 2, 2022FL02Yes
Dec 19, 2019ID00Yes
Oct 10, 2019WY01Yes
Jun 24, 2019KS00Yes
Mar 8, 2019ND00Yes
Nov 20, 2018WA00Yes
Apr 21, 2018TX00Yes