Carrier profile · USDOT 1270924 · MC-496511 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

RCS Trucking & Freight Inc

55 power unitsavg 7.3 yrNational · 24 statesBEALETON, VA94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-496511 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 17.9%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 — 39 vehicle and 87 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

27.3% · 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 3.1 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

87 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '25 · 6

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 55-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
55
Inspections · 24 mo
87
Annualized
≈44 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

56%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
67%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
15%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
42%
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 Driving55 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance14 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 8 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

36 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.

27ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
2False logs
5Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 40 total · 5 in 24 mo

40
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
14
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262022
20252022
20248028
20232002
20222002
20217037
20181001
20172002
20164024
20142002
20134014
20121011
20111011
20101001
20071001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 5, 2026NC01Yes
Mar 2, 2026MD01Yes
Dec 7, 2025IL03Yes
Feb 11, 2025VA01Yes
Dec 5, 2024VA01Yes
Jun 21, 2024VA00Yes
May 14, 2024VA00Yes
Apr 24, 2024VA01Yes
Feb 6, 2024NC00Yes
Jan 29, 2024VA00Yes
Jan 16, 2024MD00Yes
Jan 4, 2024PA00Yes
Nov 14, 2023VA00Yes
May 30, 2023MD00Yes
Dec 29, 2022PA00Yes
Mar 29, 2022PA00Yes
Dec 8, 2021OH00Yes
Nov 17, 2021GA00Yes
Sep 2, 2021NC02Yes
Mar 18, 2021MD01Yes
Mar 18, 2021PA00Yes
Mar 14, 2021IL01Yes
Feb 23, 2021NY00Yes
May 15, 2018MD00Yes
Aug 14, 2017VA00Yes