Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 3976641

DARWIN EXPRESS LLC

KENNER, LA 100

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 13.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 80 vehicle and 254 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

9.5% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 95-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
95
Inspections · 24 mo
254
Annualized
≈127 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

57%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
37%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
21%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
41%
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 Driving62
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 6 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance6
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3

ELD & hours-of-service

15 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/27/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
5False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 7 total · 7 in 24 mo

7
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20256016
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/19/2026IN05Yes
12/05/2025WY00Yes
10/05/2025IL00Yes
08/03/2025KS00Yes
03/01/2025TN00Yes
02/18/2025IN00Yes
02/02/2025NE01Yes