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Company CheckCONNECTING FREIGHTS INC · DOT 3538408

6532 TRAILRIDE WAY, CITRUS HTS, CA, 95621

DOT# 3538408 MC# 1180501 Citrus Hts, California 5 years

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Power Units

Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

$750,000

Insurance

Not Rated

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Public record

6 events tracked · latest Sep 16, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Safety & compliance 5

Aug 31, 2026
Roadside inspection, 4 out-of-service violations.
Aug 26, 2026
Clean roadside inspection, no violations.
Aug 9, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 violation (no OOS).
Aug 3, 2026
Roadside inspection, 1 violation (no OOS).
May 8, 2026
Crash reported (no fatalities).

Insurance 1

Current
Active insurance on file ($750,000).

Public FMCSA record · blue clean · orange change · red risk.

Contact Details

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Physical Address6532 TRAILRIDE WAY, CITRUS HTS, CA, 95621

Mailing Address6532 TRAILRIDE WAY, CITRUS HTS, CA, 95621-3320

Operating Authorities

Authority TypeAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

DocketMC1180501

CommonActive

ContractNot Active

BrokerNot Active

Operating5 years

Operation Classification

Authorized For Hire

SMS BASIC Scores

FMCSA safety categories, last 24 months. Above Cutoff = FMCSA flags a problem · Below cutoff = within limits · Clean = no violations.

Unsafe Driving

measure 9.66 · 6 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Hours-of-Service Compliance

measure .53 · 6 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Driver Fitness

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Controlled Substances / Alcohol

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Vehicle Maintenance

measure 4.46 · 11 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage1,117,000 miles

Mileage Year2023

VMT SourceMCS-150 Form

Drivers

Interstate

Intrastate

CDL

Total

Interstate >100mi0

Interstate <100mi0

Intrastate >100mi0

Intrastate <100mi0

Safety Summary

Safety RatingNot Rated

Total Crashes (24-mo)1

Fatal0

Driver OOS2.6% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS15.0% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Insurance

Amount$750,000

Type91X

VerifiedFMCSA · 08/11/2026

CompanyBENCHMARK INSURANCE COMPANY

Policy #FLCA-1926-05480

Last checked09/16/2026

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypeCarrier

Fleet12 units

Drivers13

Mileage1,117,000 mi

Operating5 years

MCS-15004/2026

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)1

Fatal0

Injury1

Tow-Away0

Driver Inspections

Total39

Out of Service1

OOS Rate2.6%

National Avg5.5%

Below National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total20

Out of Service3

OOS Rate15.0%

National Avg20.7%

Below National Average

Safety Trends by Year

Roadside inspections and crashes on file, year over year. The red portion of each inspection bar is the out-of-service share; ▲/▼ compares to the prior year.

Inspections · red = OOS

2024

3 · 0 OOS -

2025

18 · 0 OOS =

2026

28 · 6 OOS ▲

Crashes

2024

0 crashes -

2025

0 crashes =

2026

1 crash ▲

Based on FMCSA crash and roadside inspection records (rolling 3-year window). The latest year may be partial.

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Live FMCSA roadside inspections through Aug 2026, 49 inspections, 6 resulted in out-of-service (12.2% OOS rate).

Driver Out-of-Service 1 OOS

Vehicle Out-of-Service 10 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Crash Records (1)

Full crash history on file (all years), newest first. This list may show more than the headline Crashes figure above, because that figure follows the official FMCSA 24-month SMS window used for the Trust Score, older crashes still appear here for transparency.

Date	Location	State	Fatal	Injuries	Tow	Vehicles	Weather	Road	Light
05/08/2026	RED OAK	TX	0	1	0	3	Clear	Dry	Daylight

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

81 roadside violations across 49 inspections, grouped into FMCSA safety-behavior categories. The shaded portion shows how many were serious enough to result in an out-of-service order.

ViolationsOut-of-service

Vehicle Maintenance 34 violations · 9 OOS

Unsafe Driving 23 violations · 1 OOS

Hours-of-Service (HOS) Compliance 21 violations · 1 OOS

Other (General) 3 violations · 0 OOS

Categories follow FMCSR violation parts (Part 393/396 = Vehicle Maintenance, Part 395 = HOS; "Other" = general/administrative parts such as 390). Raw violation counts and out-of-service results, not FMCSA percentile rankings, which are not published for property carriers.

Inspection Records (49)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Driver OOS	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
08/31/2026	KY	Full (Level I)	LONDON KY	8	4	1	0	7	4	-	▲Detail
08/26/2026	CA	Full (Level I)	CA	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
08/09/2026	NV	Walk-Around (Level II)	NV	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
08/03/2026	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	CA	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
07/12/2026	AR	Driver-Only (Level III)	BRYANT AR	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/03/2026	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	CA	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
07/03/2026	MS	Walk-Around (Level II)	EB BOVINA SCALES	2	0	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
06/30/2026	NC	Driver-Only (Level III)	BESSEMER CITY NC	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/19/2026	TN	Driver-Only (Level III)	COLLEGEDALE TN	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/17/2026	NV	Driver-Only (Level III)	NV	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/30/2026	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	CA	2	2	0	0	2	2	-	▲Detail
05/19/2026	CA	Driver-Only (Level III)	CA	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/10/2026	MT	Walk-Around (Level II)	SHELBY MT	1	1	0	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
04/30/2026	AZ	Walk-Around (Level II)	HOLBROOK AZ	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/30/2026	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	CA	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
04/15/2026	KY	Full (Level I)	LONDON	5	2	0	0	5	2	-	▲Detail
04/15/2026	IL	Driver-Only (Level III)	I-57	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/03/2026	LA	Driver-Only (Level III)	NATCHITOCHES LA	3	0	1	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
04/02/2026	KS	Walk-Around (Level II)	OLATHE KS	3	0	0	0	3	0	-	▲Detail
03/24/2026	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	SR-89 S/OF I-5	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/18/2026	KY	Walk-Around (Level II)	HENDERSON	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/11/2026	UT	Walk-Around (Level II)	MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE UT	4	0	1	0	3	0	-	▲Detail
03/04/2026	CA	Driver-Only (Level III)	W. ELKHORN/ E. LEVEE RD	1	1	0	0	1	1	-	▲Detail
02/23/2026	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	CHOWCHILLA RIVER IF	2	0	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
02/20/2026	MT	Driver-Only (Level III)	BILLINGS MT	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/10/2026	NV	Full (Level I)	APEX CHECKSITE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
02/09/2026	TN	Driver-Only (Level III)	MOHAWK TN	2	1	2	1	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/30/2026	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	OTHELLO WA	3	0	3	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/12/2025	UT	Driver-Only (Level III)	HELPER UT	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/11/2025	WA	Driver-Only (Level III)	SELAH WA	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
12/10/2025	MT	Driver-Only (Level III)	WIBAUX MT	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/25/2025	OR	Driver-Only (Level III)	CASCADE LOCKS OR	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/18/2025	MT	Driver-Only (Level III)	HAUGAN MT	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/13/2025	IN	Walk-Around (Level II)	RICHMOND IN	2	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
10/30/2025	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	VETERANS LIVING MEMORIAL	3	0	1	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
09/20/2025	NM	Driver-Only (Level III)	ON US HWY 60 1060 FT E OF CHIN	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/24/2025	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	EB ANTELOPE SCALE	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
06/17/2025	AZ	Walk-Around (Level II)	YUMA AZ	2	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/23/2025	PA	Driver-Only (Level III)	90.5 I-81 S OFF RAMP	3	0	3	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
05/21/2025	CA	Full (Level I)	SIDEWINDER PLATFORM SCALE	2	0	0	0	2	0	-	▲Detail
05/06/2025	CO	Driver-Only (Level III)	DUMONT CO	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/10/2025	NC	Walk-Around (Level II)	US321	1	0	1	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
04/04/2025	OR	Driver-Only (Level III)	BRIGHTWOOD OR	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
03/18/2025	TN	Full (Level I)	INTERSTATE 40	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
02/19/2025	NE	Driver-Only (Level III)	HEBRON 81 SCALE	2	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
01/29/2025	CA	Walk-Around (Level II)	CORDELIA IF	1	0	0	0	1	0	-	▲Detail
12/08/2024	ND	Driver-Only (Level III)	BEACH ND	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail
11/05/2024	CA	Driver-Only (Level III)	ANTELOPE E/B	19	0	14	0	5	0	-	▲Detail
10/25/2024	SD	Walk-Around (Level II)	JEFFERSON SD	3	0	0	0	0	0	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

FMCSA SMS percentile rankings. Higher percentile = worse performance relative to peers.

Total Inspections45

Unsafe Driving 6 viols

HOS Compliance 6 viols

Vehicle Maintenance 11 viols

Licensing & Insurance

Form	Type	Insurance Company	Policy	Coverage	Effective	Cancel Date	Method
91X	BIPD/Primary	BENCHMARK INSURANCE COMPANY	FLCA-1926-02751	$750,000	01/08/2024	01/08/2025	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	SECURITY NATIONAL INSURANCE CO.	SMC1811266	$750,000	01/08/2023	01/08/2024	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	AEGIS SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY	ASA000028-02	$750,000	01/08/2022	01/08/2023	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	AEGIS SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY	ASA000028-01	$750,000	01/08/2021	01/08/2022	Cancelled

No active insurance policies.

Docket	Type	Action	Served	Disposition	Disp Date
MC1180501	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	12/13/2021	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	01/07/2022
MC1180501	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	12/12/2023	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	01/05/2024
MC1180501	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	12/12/2022	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	01/09/2023
MC1180501	MOTOR PROPERTY COMMON CARRIER	GRANTED	01/14/2021	-	-

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99/100

Excellent

VERIFIED

Every carrier starts at 100. We subtract points for each missing requirement or risk factor below. Verified means all four core requirements pass.

Score breakdown, from 100 to 99

Starts at 100−1 totalFinal 99

Crashes on record (rate-adjusted)−1

Verification, 4 core requirements

Active operating authority

FMCSA shows the USDOT registration and authority are active.

Authorized for hire

Holds active for-hire (common or contract) authority.

Active insurance on file

Insurance coverage and carrier are on file with FMCSA.

Safety rating not Unsatisfactory

No Unsatisfactory rating on file.

What's lowering this score

-1

Crashes on record (rate-adjusted)

Crash rate: 1 crash(es) across 12 vehicles (~0.08 per vehicle); none fatal. Scaled to fleet size and fatal severity.

Where this company lands, risk scales

Crash history (rate-adjusted)−1 of 28

0 pts · low risk−28 pts · high risk

Crash rate: 1 crash(es) across 12 vehicles (~0.08 per vehicle); none fatal. Scaled to fleet size and fatal severity.

How we calculate the Trust Score

Every company starts at 100

We subtract points for each missing requirement or risk factor. Verified means all the core requirements for that company's type pass. Nothing is added back, the score is a deduction model built only on public FMCSA data. No pay-to-play, no opinions.

Requirements differ by company type

Each company is judged fairly on its own FMCSA obligations. Anything that doesn't apply shows as a grey N/A, not required, never a penalty.

Carrier (for-hire)

Operating authority, authorized-for-hire, insurance on file, safety rating.

Broker

Broker authority + $75k surety bond (BMC-84/85). MCS-150 not required (no fleet).

Freight forwarder

FF authority + $75k bond + BOC-3. MCS-150 not required (no trucks).

Private carrier

Active USDOT + MCS-150 + safety. No operating authority / for-hire / insurance filing required (hauls its own goods).

Crashes are scaled, not flat

Crash history is proportional. We don't apply a flat penalty, we scale it to (a) crashes per vehicle in the fleet and (b) the share of those crashes that were fatal. So a big, safe fleet barely moves; a small fleet with many (and fatal) crashes takes a large hit.

0 pts deductedscaled by rate & severityup to −28 pts

Low end

50,000 vehicles + 1 crash → ~0 pts. A huge fleet with very few crashes per vehicle is almost untouched.

High end

5 vehicles + 3 crashes incl. fatal → large deduction (near the −28 cap). Many crashes per truck, fatal-heavy.

Mechanics: deduction is capped at 28 points, weighted roughly 60% on crashes-per-vehicle and 40% on the fatal ratio. Zero crashes = zero deduction. If fleet size is unknown, only crash severity can move the score (conservative).

Out-of-service rate vs. the national average

Driver and vehicle out-of-service rates are measured against the FMCSA national average, not a flat number. A company only takes the deduction when it sits above the national benchmark, for example “Vehicle OOS 37% vs national avg 20.7%”.

Point reference, the full menu

Every factor and exactly how many points it can remove. Knockout factors (they also fail Verification) are marked.

Factor	Points
USDOT / authority not active with FMCSA knockout	−25
Missing operating authority (when required) knockout	−15
No insurance or surety bond on file (when required) knockout	−25
Unsatisfactory safety rating knockout	−30
Conditional safety rating	−12
MCS-150 biennial update overdue (carriers)	−10
Crashes, rate-adjusted (per-vehicle & fatal share)	0 to −28
Driver OOS rate above national average	−5
Vehicle OOS rate above national average	−5
Very new carrier (under 1 year)	−10
Limited operating history (1-3 years)	−6
Moderate operating history (3-5 years)	−3
Operating history unknown	−3
No public phone number	−3
No public email address	−2

All inputs come from public FMCSA records (operating authority, insurance/bond filings, the SAFER/SMS safety profile, crash & inspection reports). If FMCSA updates a record, the score updates with it. For the full deduction table, see the methodology page.

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Quick Facts

Safety & Inspection Data

Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Crash Records (1)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (49)

Safety Performance Percentiles

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