Carrier profile · USDOT 2386721 · MC-820137 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Apex Freight Carriers Inc

26 power unitsavg 15.4 yrRegional · 6 statesROME, GA80/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-820137 ACTIVE
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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 53.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 15 vehicle and 40 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

66.7% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 10.0 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

39 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '26 · 4

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 26-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
26
Inspections · 24 mo
40
Annualized
≈20 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

80%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
35%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
4%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
86%
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 Maintenance25 · 9 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving19 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Aug 18, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 18 total · 3 in 24 mo

18
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20252002
20241001
20211001
20195015
20187017
20171011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 25, 2026GA01Yes
Jun 26, 2025GA00Yes
Apr 1, 2025AL00Yes
Jul 19, 2024GA00Yes
Oct 7, 2021TN00Yes
Oct 31, 2019GA00Yes
Oct 10, 2019GA00Yes
Sep 11, 2019TX00Yes
Aug 15, 2019GA00Yes
May 25, 2019GA03Yes
Dec 18, 2018GA00Yes
Sep 25, 2018GA00Yes
Sep 7, 2018GA00Yes
Aug 8, 2018GA00Yes
Aug 6, 2018GA00Yes
Aug 2, 2018SC00Yes
Mar 10, 2018GA01Yes
Dec 14, 2017GA02Yes