ABARTIC BEAR EXPRESS INC 94

ARTIC BEAR 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 17.0% (24-mo)47 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.3% (24-mo)82 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

14.3% now▼ Improving

Trailing rate down 3.9 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
21
Inspections · 24 mo
82
Annualized
≈41 / yr
Coverage
≈2.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

85%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
55%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
15%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
11%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
56%
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 Driving34
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 9 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 4 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance8
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance8
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5

ELD & hours-of-service

31 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/17/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

23ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
5False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 96% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 9 total · 7 in 24 mo

9
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20265005
20252012
20191011
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/10/2026SC00Yes
05/21/2026AZ00Yes
02/17/2026TX00Yes
02/17/2026OK00Yes
01/31/2026AZ00Yes
12/13/2025IL00Yes
01/15/2025NM03Yes
03/21/2019IN01Yes
11/21/2015IL00Yes