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DOT #1456085 · TAVARES TRANSPORTATION INC

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TAVARES TRANSPORTATION INC

DOT# 1456085 Salinas, CA Authorized For-Hire

(831) 272-3245 pete@tavarestransportation.com 600 Work St Unit A, Salinas CA 93901

25 power units · all owned 15 drivers

Intrastate Only

Not enough record

Graded once the record supports it

20 yrs history · 51 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units: 25
Drivers · CDL: 15 · 15
Annual miles: 462k unreliable

Type	Own	Total
Trucks	15	15
Tractors	10	10
Trailers	10	10

Registration

Registered: 01-25-2006 (20 yrs)
MCS-150 Update: 04-14-2026
FRED Score Date: Nov 08, 2026
Officer: PEDRO TAVARES

Cargo

61.2

medium risk

Meat Refrigerated Food General Freight Fresh Produce Other: REFRIGERATED PRODUCTS

High-Risk Cargo: General Freight, Refrigerated Food, Meat

Note: "General Freight" is a catch-all; the actual cargo mix and its risk may differ.

Estimated from the commodity types reported to FMCSA, not from loss history or the true cargo mix.

Mileage Unreliable

MCS-150 annual mileage appears too low for fleet size given observed activity. The per-100k-mile rate benchmarks on this page are excluded; the FRED grade does not use mileage (crash exposure is power-unit-years, violation exposure is inspection counts).

Intrastate operation

Runs within California only. Intrastate fleets in California are inspected about 1 a year for every 4 trucks; interstate fleets, about 1 a year for every 2 trucks. So this record rests mainly on crash reports, which states file for intrastate trucks too, and few inspections are ordinary here.

Not enough record to grade yet.

51 inspections and 1 crash on the FMCSA record in 24 months fit anything from an Excellent fleet to a Poor one.

Similar fleets: intrastate fleets of 20–49 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

80% likely range 0.42×–1.83×

ExcellentStrongSatisf.SatisfactoryMarginalPoorCritical

▲ Similar fleets 1.0×

Expected crashes, next 12 months

0.7 vs 0.7 for similar fleets

Likely 0–2 crashes

This motor carrier

0.7

Similar fleets

0.7

A record this thin can't pin that down: about a 1-in-6 chance it runs at Poor-level crash rates.

Ask

Loss runs for the last 3 years, and confirm the fleet is operating at its filed size (25 power units).

What the record shows

Crash history

betterworse

About typical. 1 injury crash on the FMCSA record in 24 months (about 0.5 a year); similar fleets have about 0.7 a year.

Roadside inspections

betterworse

Much worse than peers. Violations 3.13×, out-of-service orders 2.94× and unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 1.40× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate +24%. It's inspected more often than most fleets its size.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The estimate already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are context only.

Injury crashes

1 crash with 1 person hurt in 24 months.

Ask: claim status and driver history for these crashes.
Drivers put out of service

13 out-of-service violations against drivers: 7 hours of service, 5 no valid CDL, 1 English proficiency (Jan 2025 – Sep 2026).

Ask: driver supervision and dispatch practices.
Lights and brakes

Lights are 39 of 130 violations (30%). Light or brake defects led to 11 out-of-service orders.

Ask: the preventive-maintenance schedule and shop records.
Vehicle out-of-service rate

40.5% of vehicle inspections end out of service vs 30.6% for intrastate motor carriers (17 of 42). Across all its inspections, out-of-service orders run 2.94× what's expected for where and how it's inspected.
Driver out-of-service rate

23.3% of driver inspections end out of service vs 8.5% for intrastate motor carriers (10 of 43). Across all its inspections, out-of-service orders run 2.94× what's expected for where and how it's inspected.

Strengths

No FMCSA BASIC alerts.

Data flags

Dangerous driving: 4
Unreliable reported mileage
The motor carrier's self-reported annual mileage (MCS-150) looks implausible, so exposure- and mileage-based figures may be distorted.
Estimated mileage
No usable mileage was reported, so exposure was estimated from similar motor carriers. Mileage-based metrics here are approximate.

Track record

FMCSA record, Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 · grade scored on Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026

Crashes

0 fatalities · 1 injury · 0 tow-aways

Inspections

24% clean (no violations)

Vehicle out-of-service

40.5%

17 of 42

Intrastate avg 30.6%

Driver out-of-service

23.3%

10 of 43

Intrastate avg 8.5%

Violations

130

36 out-of-service

Inspected more often than intrastate fleets of 20–49 trucks in California (about 14 in 24 months would be typical; 41% of them had none).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order

vs 1,453 peer fleets

	This motor carrier	Peers
Crashes	0.020	0.012
Inspections	1.40	0.32
Violations	2.60	0.29
Critical violations	0.52	0.05

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: intrastate fleets, 20–49 power units, medium-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

130 violations · 24 months

Vehicle maintenance No alert

107 · 23 OOS

Lights 39 · Brakes 29 · Tires 14 · Steering & suspension 6 · Cargo securement 3 · 16 more
Unsafe driving No alert

8 · 0 OOS

Reckless / lane 4 · Speeding 2 · Phone use 1 · Other 1
Driver fitness No alert

8 · 6 OOS

No valid CDL 5 · English proficiency 2 · Medical certificate 1
Hours of service No alert

7 · 7 OOS

No log 6 · False log 1
Drugs & alcohol No alert

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Out-of-service violations “No alert” = under FMCSA's BASIC intervention threshold

Violations by quarter

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No violation trend data

Crashes

24 months

Nov

25

2025

California
Injury · 1 person hurt
Daylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.

No other reportable crashes on the FMCSA record.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

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No MC, FF or MX docket on FMCSA's registration for this motor carrier, so there are no insurance filings to show. FMCSA collects filings only from registered for-hire authorities; other motor carriers keep proof of insurance (MCS-90) at their place of business.

FMCSA filings only, not a policy audit. Not part of the FRED grade. Wrong or out of date?

Where it happens

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Inspections by state

California (HQ) 46
Arizona 4
Federal inspectors 1

Mostly inspected in its home state (90%).

How the estimate is calculated

The model, its inputs, the window it scored and its confidence. For actuaries and anyone checking the work.

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

The FRED Score predicts this motor carrier's crash risk over the next 12 months — how often they're likely to crash and how severe those crashes tend to be — versus a typical fleet of its size (25 power units: 25 filed, 14 seen roadside in 24 months).

Crash Outlook vs Peer Fleet

crashes per year · same scale

Average peer fleet

0.7

Actual, per year in window

0.3

Projected, next 12 mo

0.7

0 0.5 1

We'd expect a typical fleet of 25 power units this active to have about 0.7 crashes a year. This motor carrier recorded 1 in its scoring window (Oct 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026, about 0.3 a year) — fewer than a typical fleet. Factoring in its inspection and violation record inside that window and the credibility of its own experience, the model projects about 0.7 over the next 12. When this motor carrier does crash, those crashes tend to be substantially more severe than average — roughly 3.3× the injury/fatal weight of a typical crash.

Fatal-crash risk: about 2% chance in the next 12 months

Modeled fatal-crash rate is about typical for similar fleets (likelihood of at least one fatal crash, from its exposure and safety profile).

Track Record Used

Crashes Oct 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026 · inspections Nov 1, 2024 → Oct 31, 2026 · data as of Nov 4, 2026

Inside that window: 49 inspections and 1 crash. The FMCSA record tables now hold 48 inspections and 1 crash in that window — the SMS data moved after this grade was computed.

Outside the scoring window

on the FMCSA record · not in this grade

Aged out — crashes before Oct 1, 2023, inspections before Nov 1, 2024

Out-of-service inspection Oct 28, 2024 · CA · level 2 · 1 vehicle OOS · 2 violations
2 further inspections with no out-of-service result

Why there is no grade. Every grade but Satisfactory needs at least a 60% posterior past its cut; Satisfactory is what is left when none passes. Here the 80% likely range (0.42×–1.83×) still runs from below the Excellent cut (0.60×) to above the Poor cut (1.57×), so the record can't separate a best-in-class fleet from a poor one and the page shows no grade and no FRED Score. The forecasts are unchanged: in backtests, records this thin crash at their forecast on average but scatter about 2.6× as widely around it as records that support a Satisfactory grade.

Confidence: Moderate · Z = 0.32

Satisfactory — 1.06x its class rate (cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11). Class rate 0.027 crashes per power-unit-year for a 25-unit for-hire fleet (pu20_49). Violations 1.24x (driver behaviour 1.40x, out-of-service 2.94x, all violations 3.13x; 49 inspections). Experience 0.86x: 0.7 decayed crashes against 1.3 expected over 36 months (credibility 0.32, a 2.79). 80% range 0.42–1.83x. Last change: the violation record.

Since the previous weekly run the risk relativity moved +0.1%, driven by the violation record.

Scoring flags MCS-150 mileage unreliable (mileage is not in the grade) Intrastate operation — rated against intrastate fleets (a class crash rate about 23% lower); roadside inspections are rarer, so the record rests more on crashes

What Drives This Score

1.00× = this motor carrier's class rate

FRED multiplies three factors: the class rate a fleet of this size, class and activity is expected to run, a violation relativity from its roadside record, and its own crash experience over 36 months weighted by how much exposure stands behind it. The grade is the band of the resulting relativity to class, then the screens.

Class rate

2.7 crashes per 100 power-unit-years

25 power units · 0.68 expected crashes a year

Violation relativity

1.24×

49 inspections in window

Crash experience

0.86×

0.7 decayed crashes vs 1.3 expected · credibility 0.32

Driver behaviour

1.40×

Out-of-service rate

2.94×

All violations

3.13×

0×1× class2×+

Each sub-relativity is shrunk toward its cohort rate when the record is thin (Bühlmann credibility), so a short record reads close to 1.00×.

Relativity to class 1.06× (80% range 0.42–1.83×) · band Marginal → displayed Satisfactory · cuts: Excellent <0.60, Strong <0.76, Satisfactory <1.06, Marginal <1.57, Poor <2.11, Critical above

Full methodology · Scoring white paper · Validation study

FMCSA records

BASIC measures and every inspection, violation and crash, sortable and filterable.

FMCSA BASIC Scores

C Property

Total Inspections

Driver Insp

Driver OOS

Vehicle Insp

Vehicle OOS

BASIC	Insp w/ Viol	Measure
Unsafe Driving	7	3.98
HOS Compliance	7	1.13
Driver Fitness	8	1.67
Controlled Substances	0	0.00
Vehicle Maintenance	30	9.63

SMS record data is sourced from FMCSA's Safety Measurement System (01-JUL-26 – 31-MAR-25) and may cover a different time window than the scoring window used for the FRED grade (Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026). Counts here may differ from the grade's in-window counts.

FMCSA Inspection Records

FMCSA Crash Records

FMCSA Violation Records

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FMCSA Live Status

Fleet & equipment

Registration

Cargo

Worth a closer look

Track record

What they get cited for

Violations by quarter

Crashes

Insurance filed with FMCSA

Where it happens

Forward 12-Month Risk Outlook

FMCSA BASIC Scores

FMCSA Inspection Records

FMCSA Crash Records

FMCSA Violation Records