Carrier profile · USDOT 2120110 · MC-738935 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Ventura Transportation Inc

8 power unitsavg 11.9 yrRegional · 5 statesKATY, TX68/100
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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 41.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 16.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 12 vehicle and 25 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

50.0% · 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 45.7 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

24 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 2

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
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 8-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
8
Inspections · 24 mo
25
Annualized
≈13 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

70%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
69%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
72%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
91%
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 Maintenance14 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving12 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

28 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 8, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

17ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
1False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 53% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 17 total · 1 in 24 mo

17
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20223013
20211001
20201001
20181011
20172002
20162002
20151011
20141001
20133022
20111001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 27, 2025TX01Yes
Aug 15, 2022LA00Yes
May 5, 2022LA01Yes
Apr 12, 2022AL00Yes
Nov 3, 2021GA00Yes
Jul 7, 2020AL00Yes
Jun 5, 2018NC02Yes
Dec 7, 2017TX00Yes
Jun 25, 2017AL00Yes
Jun 9, 2016MS00Yes
Mar 11, 2016FL00Yes
Dec 30, 2015GA02Yes
Feb 10, 2014TX00Yes
Nov 14, 2013TX01Yes
May 16, 2013GA00Yes
May 7, 2013TX01No
Nov 22, 2011TX00Yes