Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 614690

COMMODITY FORWARDERS INC

LOS ANGELES, CA 100

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 0.0%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 4.0%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 18 vehicle and 25 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 8.7 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

≈0.2 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 67-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: 67
Inspections · 24 mo: 25
Annualized: ≈13 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

11%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

69%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

13%

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 Driving9 · 1 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving8
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5
393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
396.9 Inspection of motor vehicles in operationVehicle Maintenance1
392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance1
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 38 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 6 total · 0 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2023	1	0	0	1
2016	1	1	1	1
2015	2	0	0	2
2014	1	0	0	1
2007	1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
11/28/2023	HI	0	0	Yes
11/18/2016	CA	1	2	Yes
10/25/2015	WA	0	0	Yes
05/19/2015	WA	0	0	Yes
11/18/2014	WA	0	0	Yes
01/30/2007	WA	0	0	Yes