Carrier profile · USDOT 2034501 · MC-935347 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

PASTOR E TORRES

DBA BRANDON TRUCKING

30 power unitsavg 8 yrRegional · 3 statesSALINAS, CA75/100
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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 22.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 10.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 80 vehicle and 107 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

26.7% · 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 26.4 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24-mo monthly · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

105 inspections · 24 mo · busiest month May '26 · 10

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections over 24 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.8 / 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
30
Inspections · 24 mo
107
Annualized
≈54 / yr
Coverage
≈1.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

81%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
80%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
56%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
5%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
73%
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 Driving100 · 2 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance17 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance17 · 7 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance17 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance13 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 8 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

14ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
8False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 71% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 16 total · 3 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20252012
20242012
20234004
20223003
20211101
20172002
20161001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 19, 2026CA01Yes
Aug 19, 2025CA00Yes
Aug 11, 2025CA01Yes
Mar 19, 2024CA01Yes
Feb 24, 2024CA00Yes
Dec 24, 2023CA00Yes
Sep 22, 2023CA00Yes
Aug 5, 2023CA00Yes
May 4, 2023CA00Yes
May 17, 2022CA00Yes
Mar 31, 2022CA00Yes
Jan 5, 2022CA00Yes
Feb 2, 2021CA10Yes
Aug 5, 2017CA00Yes
Mar 23, 2017CA00Yes
Jan 4, 2016CA00Yes