Carrier profile · USDOT 531724 · MC-297955 · Updated Jul 3, 2026

RC Trucking Inc

39 power unitsavg 4 yrMulti-region · 9 statesGRIDLEY, KS88/100
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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 14.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 42 vehicle and 87 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

45.5% · 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 13.1 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

84 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 39-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
39
Inspections · 24 mo
87
Annualized
≈44 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

77%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
43%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
55%
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 Driving46 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 7 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.205 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

7 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 1, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 32 total · 7 in 24 mo

32
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20255015
20242012
20233013
20221011
20215015
20202012
20181001
20173023
20153003
20121011
20042102
20001001
19991010
19951011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 5, 2026KS01Yes
May 20, 2025KS00Yes
Feb 25, 2025KS00Yes
Feb 18, 2025OK00Yes
Feb 18, 2025KS02Yes
Jan 15, 2025OK00Yes
Dec 19, 2024MO00Yes
Aug 1, 2024KS01Yes
Oct 18, 2023KS00Yes
Aug 14, 2023KS01Yes
Mar 16, 2023OK00Yes
Jul 11, 2022OK01Yes
May 26, 2021KS00Yes
Mar 26, 2021KS00Yes
Mar 5, 2021OK02Yes
Mar 4, 2021AR00Yes
Feb 2, 2021KS00Yes
Sep 8, 2020KS01Yes
Mar 25, 2020KS00Yes
May 16, 2018KS00Yes
Nov 15, 2017KS01Yes
Oct 11, 2017MO02Yes
Aug 28, 2017KS00Yes
Nov 1, 2015KS00Yes
Oct 4, 2015OK00Yes