Carrier profile · USDOT 272977 · MC-180508 · Updated Jul 25, 2026

A M EXPRESS INC

76 power unitsavg 6 yrNational · 19 statesESCANABA, MI81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-180508 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY

Safety

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· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 32.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 37 vehicle and 84 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

23.1% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 8.1 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

83 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '26 · 9

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 76-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
76
Inspections · 24 mo
84
Annualized
42 / yr
Coverage
0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

51%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
36%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
45%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
57%
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.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving42 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 14 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving2 · 2 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 21, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
4False logs
2Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 145 total · 7 in 24 mo

145
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
5
Fatal
43
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20256106
20242022
20235015
20224014
20212012
20204014
20193003
20182012
20173013
20164114
20157037
20146016
20137117
20124124
20115025
20107027
20095025
20087017
20076026
200610039
2005111110
20045015
20034013
20022020
20011011
20007016
19983013
19972011
19963022
19954024
19941001
19931011
19921001
19911011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 29, 2025WV00Yes
Jul 25, 2025MI10Yes
May 28, 2025MI00Yes
Apr 2, 2025OH00Yes
Mar 5, 2025MI00Yes
Feb 12, 2025WI00Yes
Nov 10, 2024OH01Yes
Mar 9, 2024IL01Yes
Oct 31, 2023MI00Yes
Aug 11, 2023NC01Yes
Aug 3, 2023WI00Yes
Mar 24, 2023WI00Yes
Feb 22, 2023MI00Yes
Sep 11, 2022WI00Yes
Aug 23, 2022MI00Yes
Mar 18, 2022WI00Yes
Feb 3, 2022IL04Yes
Sep 22, 2021WI00Yes
Jul 14, 2021TX03Yes
Nov 10, 2020WI00Yes
Aug 5, 2020IN00Yes
Jun 16, 2020MI00Yes
Mar 24, 2020MN01Yes
Dec 15, 2019KS00Yes
Nov 7, 2019WI00Yes