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AVALA EXPRESS LLC 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 30.7% (24-mo)238 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.5% (24-mo)526 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

17.6% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 3.8 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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 248-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
248
Inspections · 24 mo
526
Annualized
≈263 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

79%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
45%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
36%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
66%
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 Driving258 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance67 · 53 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance38 · 10 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance20 · 7 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance20
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance16 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance16
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving16
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance14
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance13 · 9 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

71 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/12/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

49ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
12False logs
4Drove over hours

Trending worse — 71% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 49 total · 26 in 24 mo

49
Total crashes
26
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20266016
2025160616
20248028
20234004
20225014
20218028
20201011
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/28/2026MT00Yes
05/29/2026MS00Yes
02/21/2026IL00Yes
01/27/2026TN00Yes
01/24/2026MO00Yes
01/08/2026AR01Yes
12/16/2025WI00Yes
12/12/2025AL00Yes
12/12/2025AZ00Yes
12/10/2025WI00Yes
12/02/2025MO01Yes
11/15/2025OH00Yes
11/14/2025VA01Yes
10/20/2025GA00Yes
10/19/2025OH01Yes
10/18/2025AZ01Yes
07/31/2025WI00Yes
05/28/2025PA01Yes
05/24/2025IN00Yes
04/02/2025ND00Yes
03/15/2025TX00Yes
01/29/2025IN01Yes
12/29/2024KY00Yes
11/20/2024IN00Yes
08/31/2024FL00Yes