Carrier profile · USDOT 2584461 · MC-905467 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

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30 power unitsavg 8 yrMulti-region · 12 statesEL MONTE, CA81/100
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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 28.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 56 vehicle and 90 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

21.4% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

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.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

92 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 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
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 30-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
94
Annualized
≈47 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
55%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
53%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
52%
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.

  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance20 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving16 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance16 · 11 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance16 · 8 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 5 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance12 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance6 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

47 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 31, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

19ELD device issues
6No log / no ELD
8False logs
5Drove over hours

7 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 14 total · 1 in 24 mo

14
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20241011
20231001
20223003
20213013
20204014
20191001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 28, 2025TX03Yes
Mar 1, 2024AR01Yes
Feb 25, 2023CA00Yes
Nov 26, 2022TX00Yes
Jun 17, 2022CA00Yes
Feb 24, 2022TX00Yes
Sep 30, 2021AZ01Yes
Sep 13, 2021CA00Yes
Jul 12, 2021TN00Yes
Nov 27, 2020NM00Yes
Mar 15, 2020GA01Yes
Mar 14, 2020OK00Yes
Jan 13, 2020KY00Yes
Feb 27, 2019OK00Yes