Carrier profile · USDOT 915692 · MC-396212 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Motor Car Auto Carriers Inc

45 power unitsavg 9 yrMulti-region · 13 statesTUCSON, AZ72/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-396212 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 7 vehicle and 30 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 5.6 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 Feb '25 · 3

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 45-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
45
Inspections · 24 mo
30
Annualized
≈15 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

55%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
35%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
43%
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 Driving50 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 383.51 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 396.7 Unsafe operationVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

6 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.

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

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 46 total · 6 in 24 mo

46
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
15
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20255025
20242002
20221001
20211001
20201011
20193003
20181001
20172012
20164014
20152022
20141001
20134023
20121001
20112012
20104014
20091001
20072012
20061001
20044023
20021001
20012002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 28, 2026OH01Yes
Oct 15, 2025IL00Yes
Sep 20, 2025NC00Yes
Sep 4, 2025KY02Yes
Mar 26, 2025SC00Yes
Mar 21, 2025KY04Yes
Jul 1, 2024TN00Yes
Jan 18, 2024MN00Yes
Jan 21, 2022KS00Yes
Dec 17, 2021MN00Yes
May 2, 2020WV01Yes
Nov 20, 2019MN00Yes
Nov 8, 2019IL00Yes
Mar 28, 2019VA00Yes
Oct 27, 2018ND00Yes
Dec 13, 2017TN01Yes
Mar 7, 2017IL00Yes
Dec 4, 2016IN00Yes
Nov 24, 2016VA00Yes
Sep 7, 2016MN00Yes
Apr 5, 2016IL01Yes
May 15, 2015TN01Yes
Feb 3, 2015MN01Yes
Jun 3, 2014MN00Yes
Dec 18, 2013ND02No