Carrier profile · USDOT 2193714 · MC-761354 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

AX EXPRESS INC

45 power unitsavg 5.4 yrNational · 40 statesKILDEER, IL81/100
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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 30.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 75 vehicle and 189 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

35.3% · 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 6.1 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

182 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 15

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.1 / 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
45
Inspections · 24 mo
189
Annualized
≈95 / yr
Coverage
≈2.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

87%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
65%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
56%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
71%
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 Driving72 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance22 · 16 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance13 · 7 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance13 · 3 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance13 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 4 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

34 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 24, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

15ELD device issues
7No log / no ELD
5False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 53% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 19 total · 5 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20252012
20242012
20231011
20211001
20202002
20192012
20181111
20171011
20161001
20141011
20131001
20122002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 17, 2026NJ00Yes
Jan 24, 2026MO00Yes
Sep 23, 2025NJ01Yes
Feb 3, 2025KY00Yes
Aug 6, 2024PA00Yes
Jun 8, 2024IL02Yes
Sep 28, 2023IA01Yes
Jun 6, 2021IN00Yes
Nov 5, 2020WY00Yes
Apr 2, 2020WY00Yes
Jun 18, 2019TN01Yes
Feb 7, 2019IN00Yes
Apr 19, 2018GA15Yes
Nov 20, 2017MO01Yes
Dec 9, 2016OR00Yes
Jun 2, 2014IL01Yes
Aug 27, 2013IN00Yes
Dec 21, 2012OR00Yes
Jul 26, 2012WY00Yes