DANIEL 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 9.5% (24-mo)21 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 19.4% (24-mo)31 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

20.0% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 4.6 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
3.1 / 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
5
Inspections · 24 mo
31
Annualized
16 / yr
Coverage
3.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

97%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
89%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
82%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
50%
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 Driving24
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance23 · 4 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance18 · 8 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS
  • 393.30 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4
  • 396.9 Inspection of motor vehicles in operationVehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness2 · 1 OOS
  • 391.45 No medical examination / expiredDriver Fitness2

ELD & hours-of-service

20 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 08/27/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
13No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 2 total · 0 in 24 mo

2
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
0
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20192002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
10/15/2019NJ00Yes
01/17/2019CT00Yes