Carrier profile · USDOT 1835756 · MC-665493 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Lion Heart Carriers Inc

12 power unitsavg 8.7 yrRegional · 7 statesBAKERSFIELD, CA88/100
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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 13.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 21.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 23 vehicle and 23 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

42.9% · 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 14.8 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

28 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 7

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
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 12-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
12
Inspections · 24 mo
29
Annualized
≈15 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

41%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
72%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
85%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
82%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
75%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance20 · 2 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving17 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.26 ELD — required data elementsHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

19 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 9, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

11ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
2False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 55% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 11 total · 0 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20232022
20222012
20201011
20191001
20181001
20161001
20111001
20101001
20091011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 22, 2023NV03Yes
Feb 15, 2023AZ01Yes
Oct 21, 2022CA01Yes
Feb 7, 2022CA00Yes
May 26, 2020CA01Yes
Oct 20, 2019CA00Yes
Oct 15, 2018TX00Yes
Feb 13, 2016NM00Yes
Aug 6, 2011CA00Yes
Feb 16, 2010TX00Yes
Jan 14, 2009OH01Yes