GABA CORP

DBA: EXPRESS TOWING EXTREME TOWING BEAR FLAG TOWING

DOT# 3442181 MC# 1134271 Santa Rosa, CA Authorized For-Hire
(707) 586-0938 bearflagtowing@gmail.com 121 Chestnut St, Santa Rosa CA 95401
6 power units · all owned 11 drivers
HazMat Intrastate Only
Strong
FRED Score 79.0 / 100
Low confidence
6 yrs history · 8 roadside inspections

FMCSA Live Status

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
6
Drivers · CDL
11 · 0
Annual miles
100k unreliable
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 6 0 0 6
Tractors 0 0 0 0
Trailers 0 0 0 0

Registration

Registered
06-18-2020 (6 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
06-16-2022
FRED Score Date
Nov 08, 2026
Officer
KRISTEN CREAM

Cargo

72.3
high risk
Motor Vehicles Drive/Tow Away Mobile Homes General Freight 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.

Advisory Grade — Outside the Ranked Book

Fleets under 10 power units are graded against their size cohort (pu6_9) for reference, but sit outside the 10+ power-unit underwriting book the FRED rank covers.

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).

Stale MCS-150 Filing

This motor carrier has not updated its MCS-150 in over 3 years. Reported mileage and fleet size may be outdated.

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.

No Interstate Operating Authority

This carrier is not authorized for interstate for-hire operations. They may still operate legally as an intrastate for-hire carrier.

Expected crash rate is probably lower than similar fleets (about an 80% chance), but the record is too thin to say by how much.

Similar fleets: intrastate fleets of 6–9 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

This motor carrier 0.71×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ Similar fleets 1.0×
Expected crashes, next 12 months
0.1 vs 0.2 for similar fleets
Likely 0–1 crashes
This motor carrier
0.1
Similar fleets
0.2
Chance of a fatal crash, next 12 months
<1%
Below similar fleets.
What's driving the grade
Crash history
betterworse
About typical. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.2 a year.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Better than peers. Out-of-service orders 0.37×, unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 0.56× and violations 0.64× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate -17%. 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.
Data flags
  • No active operating authority
    The motor carrier's interstate for-hire authority is revoked or inactive, so it isn't currently cleared to haul interstate for hire.
  • 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, Mar 2026 – Apr 2026 · grade scored on Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026
Crashes
0
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
8
75% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 8
Intrastate avg 30.6%
Driver out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 8
Intrastate avg 8.5%
Violations
3
0 out-of-service

Inspected more often than intrastate fleets of 6–9 trucks in California (about 5 in 24 months would be typical; 46% of them had none).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q1 '26: 6 inspections, 0 out of service 6 Q1 '26 Q2 '26: 2 inspections, 0 out of service 2 Q2 '26
vs 1,859 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.000 0.016
Inspections 1.17 0.38
Violations 0.25 0.36
Critical violations 0.08 0.06

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: intrastate fleets, Small (advisory) power units, high-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

3 violations · 24 months
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    3 · 0 OOS
    Lights 1 · Steering & suspension 1 · Tires 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

FMCSA record through May 14, 2026 · no change recorded by FMCSA since
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Last on FMCSA's record (May 14, 2026)
No liability filing on FMCSA's record through May 14, 2026.
Cargo filing
not required by FMCSA (household-goods motor carriers only); the cargo policy is not on FMCSA's record

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) 8