Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 823115

FOOTHILL PACKING INC

SALINAS, CA 88

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 12.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 217 vehicle and 125 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.0% · 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 5.5 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
≈2.4 / 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
46
Inspections · 24 mo
219
Annualized
≈110 / yr
Coverage
≈2.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

1%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
28%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
54%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
official FMCSA
23%
Vehicle Maintenance
official FMCSA

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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance43 · 16 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving29 · 3 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance10 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance5
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving5 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.23 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

4 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/24/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 24 total · 3 in 24 mo

24
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20251001
20242102
20232002
20221011
20201011
20191001
20172002
20163013
20151001
20141001
20121001
20112002
20091011
20082002
20061001
20051001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/16/2026AZ01Yes
08/29/2025CA00Yes
09/19/2024CA00Yes
02/06/2024AZ20Yes
11/13/2023CA00Yes
09/20/2023CA00Yes
04/02/2022CA01Yes
12/19/2020AZ01Yes
12/16/2019AZ00Yes
07/19/2017CA00Yes
03/25/2017CA00Yes
09/05/2016CA00Yes
08/11/2016CA05Yes
06/22/2016CA00Yes
02/14/2015AZ00Yes
04/29/2014CA00Yes
07/05/2012CA00Yes
09/03/2011CA00Yes
09/01/2011CA00Yes
04/02/2009CA02Yes
07/13/2008CA00Yes
04/23/2008CA00Yes
11/26/2006CA00Yes
03/18/2005CA00Yes