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A&E EXPRESS LLC Safety Record

Roadside out-of-service rates versus the national benchmark, inspection and crash trends, decoded violation themes, and ELD / hours-of-service integrity — the full safety picture behind the verdict.

Out-of-service rate· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 30.0% (24-mo)10 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 38.5% (24-mo)13 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

42.9% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 8.2 pts across the window — latest above the 22.26% national benchmark.

Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal

Inspection coverage

How heavily FMCSA inspects this fleet for its size — it tells you how much to trust the safety signals above. Thin coverage on a young authority is a fraud signal nobody else surfaces.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 7-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
7
Inspections · 24 mo
13
Annualized
≈7 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

58%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
89%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
64%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
92%
Vehicle Maintenance
Vektor peer est.

Percentile = standing among same-exposure peers (higher = worse). FMCSA publishes percentiles for only some carriers (shown official); elsewhere we show a Vektor peer-percentile estimate, or the absolute SMS measure when there are too few inspections to rank.

Violation themes· decoded · grouped by BASIC

What this carrier actually gets cited for — FMCSA violation codes decoded into plain English, ranked by frequency.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance17 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 5 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving9
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 4 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 3 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 392.71 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving2

ELD & hours-of-service

11 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/13/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
2False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 3 total · 0 in 24 mo

3
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
0
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20192002
20181001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/15/2019AZ00Yes
03/19/2019AZ00Yes
03/13/2018AZ00Yes