Carrier profile · USDOT 658513 · Updated Jun 19, 2026

Ralphs Grocery Co

DBA FOOD 4 LESS ALPHA BETA CALA FOODS HUGHES MARKET BELL MARKET

334 power unitsavg 6.5 yrLocal · 2 statesCOMPTON, CA88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
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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 6.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 439 vehicle and 492 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

4.6% · 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

469 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 29

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 334-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
334
Inspections · 24 mo
493
Annualized
≈247 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

1%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
23%
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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 773 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 237 total · 19 in 24 mo

237
Total crashes
19
In last 24 mo
6
Fatal
64
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
2025110211
2024160216
20239029
2022160316
2021111211
2020160115
2019120112
2018210720
2017201519
2016111310
20156036
20144014
20131001
20122002
20112012
20102022
20093022
20083013
20078047
2006121412
20056036
20048138
20035025
20021011
20017007
20003003
19999049
19985135
19974024
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 27, 2026CA00Yes
Mar 30, 2026CA00Yes
Mar 21, 2026CA00Yes
Oct 14, 2025CA00Yes
Oct 4, 2025CA00Yes
Jun 25, 2025CA00Yes
May 31, 2025CA00Yes
Apr 21, 2025CA00Yes
Apr 19, 2025CA00Yes
Mar 15, 2025CA00Yes
Mar 8, 2025CA00Yes
Jan 30, 2025CA01Yes
Jan 18, 2025CA01Yes
Jan 9, 2025CA00Yes
Dec 14, 2024CA00Yes
Dec 10, 2024CA00Yes
Oct 23, 2024CA00Yes
Sep 11, 2024CA01Yes
Sep 11, 2024CA00Yes
Jul 31, 2024CA00Yes
Jul 4, 2024CA00Yes
Jun 28, 2024CA00Yes
Jun 18, 2024CA01Yes
Jun 15, 2024CA00Yes
Jun 2, 2024CA00Yes