PRIME TOWING & TRANSPORT INC

DOT# 3142525 Tulare, CA Authorized For-Hire / Private Property
(559) 686-1578 jessica@primetowingca.net 1250 South O Street, Tulare CA 93274
14 power units · all owned 14 drivers
HazMat Intrastate Only
Strong
FRED Score 90.0 / 100
Low confidence
8 yrs history · 29 roadside inspections
Upside capped

FMCSA Live Status

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
14
Drivers · CDL
14 · 7
Annual miles
70k unreliable
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 14 0 0 14
Tractors 0 0 0 0
Trailers 0 0 0 0

Registration

Registered
05-30-2018 (8 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
06-17-2024
FRED Score Date
Nov 08, 2026
Officer
AIVER DE LA TORRE

Cargo

72.3
high risk
Motor Vehicles Drive/Tow Away Mobile Homes General Freight Other: OTHER Farm Supplies
High-Risk Cargo
Motor Vehicles, Drive/Tow Away, Mobile Homes, General Freight

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.

Upside Withheld

Its risk relativity (0.54× similar fleets) would put it in Excellent; this rule holds it at Strong:

  • Excellent withheld: too little expected exposure to prove it (under 0.3 expected crashes in 36 months)

The downside is never capped.

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.

Expected crash rate is probably lower than similar fleets (about a 90% chance), but the record is too thin to say by how much.

Similar fleets: intrastate fleets of 10–19 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

Per truck, fleets like this one are expected to crash about 0.4× as often as the median active fleet of 10–19 trucks.

This motor carrier 0.54×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ Similar fleets 1.0×
Expected crashes, next 12 months
0.2 vs 0.3 for similar fleets
Likely 0–1 crashes
This motor carrier
0.2
Similar fleets
0.3
Chance of a fatal crash, next 12 months
<1%
Below similar fleets.
What's driving the grade
Crash history
betterworse
Leans better, not yet proven. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.3 a year.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Much better than peers. Out-of-service orders 0.14×, violations 0.21× and unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 0.26× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate -35%. It's inspected more often than most fleets its size.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The grade already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are not in it.

  • Nothing on the FMCSA record stands out.
Strengths
  • No reportable crashes in 24 months.
  • Vehicle out-of-service rate 0.0% vs 30.6% for intrastate motor carriers; driver 0.0% vs 8.5%.
  • No FMCSA BASIC alerts.
Data flags
  • 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, May 2025 – Apr 2026 · grade scored on Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026
Crashes
0
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
29
97% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 29
Intrastate avg 30.6%
Driver out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 29
Intrastate avg 8.5%
Violations
1
0 out-of-service

Inspected more often than intrastate fleets of 10–19 trucks in California (about 10 in 24 months would be typical; 44% of them had none).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q2 '25: 14 inspections, 0 out of service 14 Q2 '25 Q3 '25: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q3 '25 Q4 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q4 '25 Q1 '26: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q1 '26 Q2 '26: 13 inspections, 0 out of service 13 Q2 '26
vs 251 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.000 0.018
Inspections 1.68 0.54
Violations 0.04 0.23
Critical violations 0.00 0.04

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: intrastate fleets, 10–19 power units, high-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

1 violation · 24 months
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    1 · 0 OOS
    Other parts 1
  • Unsafe driving No alert
    0
  • Hours of service No alert
    0
  • Driver fitness No alert
    0
  • Drugs & alcohol No alert
    0
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

No reportable crashes on the FMCSA record in the last 24 months.

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) 29

Mostly inspected in its home state (100%).