Carrier profile · USDOT 2697293 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

SJ DISTRIBUTORS LLC

168 power unitsavg 7.1 yrRegional · 5 statesMILPITAS, 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 1.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 178 vehicle and 215 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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

211 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 17

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
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 168-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
168
Inspections · 24 mo
215
Annualized
≈108 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

14%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
16%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
21%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
8%
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 Driving53 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance34 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.201 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.203 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

9 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 19, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
2False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 80% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 30 total · 6 in 24 mo

30
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264024
20244014
20237037
20222012
20214024
20206124
20191011
20181001
20151011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 29, 2026WA00Yes
May 29, 2026WA01Yes
May 7, 2026CA01Yes
Mar 17, 2026CA00Yes
Oct 4, 2024CA00Yes
Aug 15, 2024CA01Yes
May 11, 2024CA00Yes
Apr 2, 2024CA00Yes
Oct 19, 2023CA01Yes
Sep 27, 2023CA01Yes
Aug 18, 2023CA00Yes
Aug 1, 2023CA00Yes
Feb 13, 2023OR01Yes
Jan 4, 2023CA00Yes
Jan 3, 2023CA00Yes
Sep 28, 2022WA01Yes
Sep 19, 2022CA00Yes
Jun 7, 2021CA01Yes
Apr 23, 2021CA00Yes
Jan 29, 2021CA01Yes
Jan 28, 2021CA00Yes
Dec 28, 2020CA01Yes
Dec 19, 2020CA10No
Sep 29, 2020CA01No
Sep 23, 2020CA00Yes