Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 3441290

FERNANDO RAMIREZ LICEA

SANTA MARIA, CA 74

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 61.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 18.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 13 vehicle and 16 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

62.5% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 38.4 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
3
Inspections · 24 mo
16
Annualized
≈8 / yr
Coverage
≈2.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

88%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
75%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
97%
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.

  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 7 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8 · 5 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.13 Retroreflective sheetingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 26, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours