Carrier profile · USDOT 2546856 · MC-886681 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

COLTONCOOPER LLC

50 power unitsavg 6.6 yrMulti-region · 14 statesDENVER, CO81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-886681 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 23.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 46 vehicle and 138 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

9.1% · 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

136 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 11

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 50-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
50
Inspections · 24 mo
138
Annualized
≈69 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

52%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
70%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
27%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
54%
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 Driving42 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 16 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance10 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 3 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

16 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 2, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
2False logs
7Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 25 total · 3 in 24 mo

25
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20252112
20241001
20233013
20222002
20212002
20203003
20192002
20184004
20173003
20162012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 9, 2026WY01Yes
Dec 23, 2025CO03Yes
Dec 5, 2025UT10Yes
Mar 23, 2024WY00Yes
Nov 2, 2023CO00Yes
Aug 7, 2023CO00Yes
Feb 28, 2023CO01Yes
Jan 27, 2022CO00Yes
Jan 25, 2022CO00Yes
Sep 23, 2021WY00Yes
Feb 23, 2021WY00Yes
Sep 21, 2020WY00Yes
Jun 11, 2020CO00Yes
Jan 5, 2020WY00Yes
Dec 2, 2019CO00Yes
Aug 21, 2019CO00Yes
Sep 26, 2018WY00Yes
Jun 29, 2018WY00Yes
May 29, 2018CO00Yes
Mar 18, 2018WY00Yes
Jul 28, 2017CO00Yes
Apr 10, 2017GA00Yes
Apr 5, 2017CO00Yes
Dec 6, 2016CO01Yes
Aug 25, 2016NE00Yes