Carrier profile · USDOT 2386793 · MC-820173 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

RTL Trucking Inc

26 power unitsavg 4.7 yrMulti-region · 11 statesFRESNO, CA94/100
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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 14.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 50 vehicle and 89 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

22.2% · 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 7.3 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

90 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 9

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.

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
26
Inspections · 24 mo
94
Annualized
≈47 / yr
Coverage
≈1.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

69%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
74%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
27%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
28%
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 Driving28 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance18 · 5 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance12 · 6 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving12 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

53 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 12, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

34ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
13False 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· 18 total · 5 in 24 mo

18
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20253013
20243013
20231011
20222012
20212002
20201001
20173003
20162002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 29, 2026TX01Yes
Sep 16, 2025CA00Yes
Sep 5, 2025TX00Yes
Jun 9, 2025GA01Yes
Aug 27, 2024LA00Yes
Jun 8, 2024NM00Yes
Feb 16, 2024FL01Yes
May 15, 2023CA02Yes
Dec 17, 2022GA00Yes
Aug 8, 2022TX01Yes
Nov 16, 2021CA00Yes
Jun 24, 2021TX00Yes
Sep 24, 2020GA00Yes
Oct 23, 2017AZ00Yes
Sep 17, 2017FL00Yes
Jun 4, 2017AZ00Yes
Jun 14, 2016OK00Yes
Apr 5, 2016WY00Yes