Carrier profile · USDOT 2431569 · MC-839776 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Hanford Commodities Transport Inc

DBA HCT INC

50 power unitsavg 6.3 yrMulti-region · 8 statesHANFORD, CA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-839776 ACTIVE

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 7.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 106 vehicle and 122 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

11.1% · 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 6.9 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

136 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 15

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
1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 50-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
50
Inspections · 24 mo
139
Annualized
70 / yr
Coverage
1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

75%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
83%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
25%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
30%
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 Driving65 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance20 · 2 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance10 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

44 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 22, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

26ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
7False logs
8Drove over hours

Trending worse — 85% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 35 total · 5 in 24 mo

35
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20254004
20242012
20233103
20224034
20211001
20205025
20192002
20182002
20177027
20165005
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 20, 2025CA00Yes
Nov 5, 2025CA00Yes
Sep 9, 2025CA00Yes
Feb 11, 2025CA00Yes
Nov 7, 2024CA04Yes
Jun 12, 2024CA00Yes
Sep 14, 2023CA00Yes
Sep 2, 2023CA10Yes
May 22, 2023CA00Yes
Nov 29, 2022CA01Yes
Nov 29, 2022CA01Yes
Jun 30, 2022CA00Yes
Jan 3, 2022CA01Yes
Mar 10, 2021CA00Yes
Nov 2, 2020CA01Yes
Oct 3, 2020CA00Yes
Aug 10, 2020CA00Yes
Apr 17, 2020CA01Yes
Mar 5, 2020CA00Yes
Jun 1, 2019CA00Yes
Jan 7, 2019NV00Yes
Nov 18, 2018CA00Yes
Mar 2, 2018CA00Yes
Dec 1, 2017CA00Yes
Nov 27, 2017CA00Yes