Carrier profile · USDOT 2013041 · MC-778945 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Kartar Trucking Inc

45 power unitsavg 4 yrMulti-region · 13 statesCLOVIS, CA75/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-778945 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 23.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 10.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 76 vehicle and 131 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

26.1% · 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 2.1 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

127 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 45-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
45
Inspections · 24 mo
131
Annualized
≈66 / yr
Coverage
≈1.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

96%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
96%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
83%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
72%
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 Driving166 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance55 · 16 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance45 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance40 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance28 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance27 · 24 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance21 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance18 · 4 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance16 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

156 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 25, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

89ELD device issues
10No log / no ELD
34False logs
13Drove over hours

Trending worse — 52% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 27 total · 4 in 24 mo

27
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20251001
20244114
20236026
20223013
20211001
20201011
20192002
20181001
20172012
20162002
20152012
20141011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 20, 2026AR01Yes
Jun 10, 2025CA00Yes
Aug 30, 2024AZ13Yes
Aug 16, 2024CA00Yes
Jul 10, 2024CA00Yes
Jan 4, 2024AZ00Yes
Oct 31, 2023TN00Yes
Jun 4, 2023CA01Yes
May 16, 2023TX00Yes
May 5, 2023CA00Yes
Apr 28, 2023CA00Yes
Apr 25, 2023AZ01Yes
Apr 21, 2022NM00Yes
Apr 11, 2022CA00Yes
Feb 12, 2022TX02Yes
Feb 21, 2021NM00Yes
Dec 2, 2020TX01Yes
Dec 21, 2019TX00Yes
May 5, 2019MD00Yes
Nov 12, 2018TX00Yes
Mar 15, 2017VA01Yes
Jan 16, 2017IN00Yes
Nov 28, 2016CA00Yes
Apr 3, 2016PA00Yes
Dec 14, 2015TX02Yes