Carrier profile · USDOT 1305839 · MC-706880 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

EXCEL TOWING LLC

3 power unitsavg 8 yrLocal · 2 statesASHBURN, VA50/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-706880 ACTIVEHAZMAT
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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 —24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 66.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 0 vehicle and 3 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

3 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 1

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
0.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 3-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
3
Inspections · 24 mo
3
Annualized
2 / yr
Coverage
0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

98%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
79%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
46%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
clean · per-BASIC

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 Driving5 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 21, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

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

Crash history· 3 total · 0 in 24 mo

3
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20201001
20172022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 8, 2020VA00Yes
Oct 19, 2017MD03Yes
Jul 25, 2017MD01Yes