Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 3494271

LFA & SONS TRANSPORT LLC

GUSTINE, CA 70

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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 60.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 4 vehicle and 5 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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
≈2.5 / 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
1
Inspections · 24 mo
5
Annualized
≈3 / yr
Coverage
≈2.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

74%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
89%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
58%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
54%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
Vehicle Maintenance
.75measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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.

  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 3 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance3
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving2
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.4 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.71 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1

ELD & hours-of-service

4 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/05/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours