Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 3149419

AAA EXPRESS LLC

BOWLING GREEN, KY 80

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 58.3%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 9.5%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 12 vehicle and 21 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

80.0% · 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 52.3 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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

≈1.1 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Within the expected band for a 10-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.

Registered power units: 10
Inspections · 24 mo: 21
Annualized: ≈11 / yr
Coverage: ≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

72%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

58%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

76%

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 Driving6
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance5
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2
392.3 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1 · 1 OOS
395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance1
393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance1
392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving1

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 09/22/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues

0No log / no ELD

0False logs

1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 80% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 2 total · 0 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year		Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2024		1	0	1	1
2018		1	0	1	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
06/12/2024	TN	0	1	Yes
08/28/2018	TX	0	1	Yes