Carrier profile · USDOT 454597 · MC-235289 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Desert Refined Products Transport Inc

30 power unitsavg 12 yrRegional · 5 statesPHOENIX, AZ88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-235289 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksdesertrpt.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 10.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 74 vehicle and 77 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

6.3% · 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 11.1 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

75 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 7

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 30-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
77
Annualized
≈39 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

28%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
27%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
16%
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.

  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance13 · 5 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 1 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 177.817 Other violationOther4 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

13 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Sep 26, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

11ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 82% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 50 total · 3 in 24 mo

50
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
4
Fatal
19
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20251011
20232012
20224014
20213113
20201001
20194004
20181001
20173213
20164103
20151001
20064014
20053023
20045035
20032022
20022012
20014044
20001001
19972012
19951001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 8, 2026AZ00Yes
Feb 5, 2026AZ00Yes
Jun 12, 2025AZ01Yes
Sep 15, 2023AZ01Yes
Jul 24, 2023AZ00Yes
Nov 21, 2022AZ01Yes
Oct 5, 2022AZ00Yes
Apr 11, 2022AZ00Yes
Feb 18, 2022AZ00Yes
Dec 24, 2021AZ01Yes
Jul 10, 2021AZ10Yes
Jun 10, 2021AZ00Yes
May 23, 2020AZ00Yes
Nov 17, 2019AZ00Yes
May 6, 2019AZ00Yes
Mar 6, 2019AZ00Yes
Feb 19, 2019AZ00Yes
May 26, 2018AZ00Yes
Nov 8, 2017AZ10Yes
Aug 2, 2017AZ22Yes
Jun 1, 2017AZ00Yes
May 19, 2016AZ10No
May 13, 2016AZ00Yes
Mar 17, 2016AZ00Yes
Jan 22, 2016AZ00Yes