Carrier profile · USDOT 1582586 · MC-609813 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Total Transportation & Distribution Inc

111 power unitsavg 12 yrRegional · 3 statesRANCHO CUMANOGA, CA94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-609813 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 11.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 172 vehicle and 192 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.6% · 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 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

173 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '25 · 15

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
≈0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 111-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
111
Inspections · 24 mo
193
Annualized
≈97 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

13%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
32%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
16%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
40%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance62 · 11 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving42 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance21 · 3 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance18 · 10 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

16 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 10, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

7ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 37 total · 5 in 24 mo

37
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20252012
20245005
20231001
20221001
20217007
20201001
20192012
20183023
20172012
20163023
20154023
20142002
20121001
20102012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 1, 2026CA01Yes
Jun 5, 2025CA01Yes
Mar 26, 2025CA00Yes
Nov 7, 2024CA00Yes
Oct 18, 2024CA00Yes
Jul 9, 2024CA00Yes
Jun 17, 2024CA00Yes
Apr 23, 2024CA00Yes
Mar 10, 2023CA00Yes
May 19, 2022CA00Yes
Jul 23, 2021CA00Yes
Jul 20, 2021CA00Yes
Jul 13, 2021CA00Yes
Jun 29, 2021CA00Yes
Jun 1, 2021CA00Yes
Apr 8, 2021CA00Yes
Apr 5, 2021CA00Yes
Dec 28, 2020CA00Yes
Jul 25, 2019CA00Yes
Mar 16, 2019CA01Yes
Sep 7, 2018CA01Yes
May 30, 2018CA01Yes
Mar 13, 2018CA00Yes
Dec 22, 2017CA00Yes
Aug 16, 2017CA02Yes