Carrier profile · USDOT 712752 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Hilltown Packing Company Inc

21 power unitsavg 12 yrRegional · 3 statesSALINAS, CA94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkssteinbeckproduce.comFMCSA SAFER

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 11.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 9.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 94 vehicle and 33 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

10.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 5.5 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

92 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 10

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.3 / 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
21
Inspections · 24 mo
95
Annualized
≈48 / yr
Coverage
≈2.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

9%
Unsafe Driving
official FMCSA
Hours-of-Service
0violations
official FMCSA
84%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
official FMCSA
21%
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.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving22 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance16 · 6 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.62 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness3 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 5, 2024. 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

Crash history· 11 total · 0 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20231011
20222012
20193013
20181001
20171001
20071001
20061011
20021001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Aug 11, 2023CA01Yes
Oct 17, 2022CA01Yes
Jan 26, 2022AZ00Yes
Dec 5, 2019AZ01Yes
Nov 26, 2019AZ00Yes
Jan 4, 2019AZ00Yes
Feb 8, 2018AZ00Yes
Mar 14, 2017AZ00Yes
Jun 26, 2007CA00Yes
May 17, 2006CA01Yes
Dec 9, 2002AZ00Yes