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API EXPRESS INC 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 28.0% (24-mo)50 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.3% (24-mo)87 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

21.9% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 6.2 pts across the window — latest under 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
≈1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 30-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
87
Annualized
≈44 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

64%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
66%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
59%
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
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance16 · 13 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance16 · 4 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 3 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance11 · 4 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance4

ELD & hours-of-service

30 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/05/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

16ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
10False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 88% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 10 total · 9 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263113
20253003
20244014
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/27/2026TX10Yes
06/01/2026LA00Yes
05/14/2026AR01Yes
12/19/2025LA00Yes
10/09/2025TN00Yes
09/17/2025OH00Yes
10/11/2024NC00Yes
09/30/2024PA00Yes
09/06/2024OR00Yes
04/04/2024IA01Yes