CALIFORNIA CARTAGE EXPRESS
Legal: CALIFORNIA CARTAGE EXPRESS LLC
Risk factors
High riskVioCodes scoreA weighted read of the public FMCSA signals below — authority, insurance, out-of-service, crashes, roadside OOS rates, and carrier connections. A starting point for vetting, not a guarantee.
Broker payment signals
Bond, cancellation & authority risk for this broker — from free FMCSA records.
- No active broker bond on file — a bond is required to operate. High non-payment risk.
- Broker authority is inactive, not active.
- Bond has changed hands 5 times across 2 sureties — churn can signal payment or coverage trouble.
These are FMCSA bond & authority signals — not a credit report. A filed bond cancellation is the biggest early warning that a broker may stop paying, but days-to-pay and slow-pay history aren’t public FMCSA data — verify those with a broker-credit service or references before extending terms.
Roadside inspection performance
Out-of-service rate vs national average. Lower is better.
CSA performance breakdown
FMCSA · August 28, 20260 inspections · 0 violations (0 OOS) · —% of inspections had an OOS finding.
Latest FMCSA SMS snapshot. Codes link to the lookup — severity weighting, contest angles, and the DataQs Drafter for each. Click a BASIC to filter the codes.
90-day safety improvement plan
What this carrier has struggled with most in the last 90 days — where to focus now.
Inspection & crash map
live · FMCSA MCMISEvery inspection and crash on record — hover a point for the summary, click for full detail (codes, severity, CSA points).
CSA points = violation severity weight × FMCSA time weight (3× in the last 6 months, 2× at 6–12, 1× at 12–24). Points are spread within each state — FMCSA records the inspection state, not an exact location. Source: FMCSA MCMIS.
Company profile
FMCSA censusAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE
- Interstate · 100+ mi130 drivers
- Interstate · <100 mi215 drivers
- Company officer
- RICHARD SMITH
- Operation
- Interstate · Hazmat
- Registered since
- 1992-07-02
- Last MCS-150 update
- 2017-11-03
- Census status
- I
Fleet: 345 trucks · 197 owned trailers · 345 leased/term tractors.
Source: FMCSA Company Census File (data.transportation.gov). Fleet and driver counts are self-reported on the carrier’s most recent MCS-150 filing.
Connections
carrier graphThis carrier shares addresses, phone numbers, officers or emails with 65 other carriers — review the connections below as part of your vetting.
Shared VINs come from FMCSA roadside-inspection records — a vehicle inspected under more than one carrier, often a fleet transfer or trailer interchange. Other links come from the FMCSA census. Shared identifiers are common and often legitimate — treat these as leads to investigate, not proof of wrongdoing.
Activity history
20 events- 11/03/2017MCS-150 update filed
17.1M mi reported (2016)
- 10/13/2017Insurance cancelled — NATIONAL INTERSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
BIPD/Primary · policy CAL 8110000-00
- 10/13/2017Insurance cancelled — INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY
SURETY · policy 0430653
- 10/01/2017Insurance filed — NATIONAL UNION FIRE INS. CO. OF PITSBGH. PA
Liability (BIPD) — BMC-91X · policy 7093276
- 10/01/2017Insurance replaced — NATIONAL INTERSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY
BIPD/Primary · policy CAL 8110000-00
- 09/18/2017COMMON — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (09/29/2017)
- 09/18/2017CONTRACT — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (09/29/2017)
- 04/16/2014PROPERTY BROKER — REINSTATED
REVOKED (10/23/2017)
- 10/01/2013Insurance cancelled — INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY
SURETY · policy 0430653
- 10/02/2006Insurance name changed — LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
SURETY
- 09/13/2006Insurance replaced — INTERNATIONAL FIDELITY INSURANCE COMPANY
SURETY · policy 0430653
- 09/13/2006Insurance replaced — LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
SURETY
- 08/31/2006Insurance replaced — LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.
CARGO · policy K0176100129712
- 08/30/2006BROKER — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (09/14/2006)
- 08/30/2006COMMON — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (09/06/2006)
- 08/30/2006CONTRACT — INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION
DISCONTINUED REVOCATION (09/01/2006)
- 02/03/1994PROPERTY BROKER — GRANTED
REVOKED (12/04/2013)
- 09/18/1992MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER — GRANTED
REVOKED (04/23/2018)
- 09/18/1992MOTOR PROPERTY CONTRACT CARRIER — GRANTED
REVOKED (04/23/2018)
- 07/02/1992Registered with FMCSA
AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE
Merged from FMCSA authority, insurance, out-of-service, and census records.
Operations
Classification
- AUTHORIZED FOR HIRE
Area served
- Interstate
FMCSA safety rating
- Rating
- Not rated
- Type
- Non-ratable review
- Rated
- —
- Last review
- 2017-03-09
MCS-150 registration
- Form date
- 2017-11-03
- Reported mileage
- 17,100,000 mi (2016)
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