Carrier profile · USDOT 531039 · MC-266283 · Updated Jul 19, 2026

Direct Home Delivery Service Inc

DBA DIRECT TRANSPORT

87 power unitsavg 8.2 yrRegional · 4 statesRIVERSIDE, CA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-266283 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 11.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 53 vehicle and 71 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

28.6% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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

71 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '25 · 8

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 87-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
87
Inspections · 24 mo
71
Annualized
≈36 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

38%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
49%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
50%
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 Driving43 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

12 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 17, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

6ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 36 total · 2 in 24 mo

36
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20251001
20241011
20231111
20225025
20213003
20203003
20191001
20183003
20172012
20152002
20131011
20091011
20081001
20064024
20053013
20041011
20011001
19991001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 16, 2026CA01Yes
Dec 5, 2025AZ00Yes
Feb 23, 2024CA01Yes
May 1, 2023CA14Yes
Nov 8, 2022CA00Yes
Jul 8, 2022CA00Yes
Jun 9, 2022CA00Yes
Apr 19, 2022CA02Yes
Jan 21, 2022CA01Yes
Oct 1, 2021CA00Yes
Aug 9, 2021CA00Yes
Jul 12, 2021CA00Yes
Jun 12, 2020NV00Yes
Jun 10, 2020CA00Yes
May 21, 2020CA00Yes
Sep 5, 2019CA00Yes
Dec 22, 2018CA00Yes
Nov 22, 2018CA00Yes
May 2, 2018CA00Yes
Nov 2, 2017CA01Yes
Sep 21, 2017CA00Yes
Dec 15, 2015CA00Yes
Apr 29, 2015CA00Yes
Mar 6, 2013CA01Yes
Sep 4, 2009CA01Yes