Carrier profile · USDOT 2077259 · MC-725535 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

DELTA EXPRESS INC

69 power unitsavg 5.5 yrNational · 30 statesKINGS MOUNTAIN, NC81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-725535 ACTIVEHAZMAT
Verified linksdeltaexpressinc.comFMCSA SAFER

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 27.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 133 vehicle and 162 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

21.6% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 8.1 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

155 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 14

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 69-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
69
Inspections · 24 mo
162
Annualized
≈81 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

40%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
95%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
64%
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.

  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance39 · 29 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving35 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance26 · 4 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance17 · 5 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance15 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance14 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance12 · 11 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

63 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 25, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

33ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
14False logs
12Drove over hours

Trending worse — 85% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 47 total · 3 in 24 mo

47
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
14
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253113
20233013
20225015
20215045
20203013
20196016
20185015
20174004
20169039
20153013
20141001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 11, 2025SC02Yes
Sep 26, 2025TX00Yes
Apr 29, 2025WV10Yes
Apr 25, 2023NY01Yes
Feb 20, 2023ND00Yes
Jan 10, 2023UT00Yes
Dec 6, 2022CT00Yes
Nov 14, 2022NC00Yes
Sep 27, 2022TN00Yes
Mar 9, 2022FL01Yes
Jan 29, 2022PA00Yes
May 23, 2021NY01Yes
May 3, 2021SC00Yes
Feb 15, 2021AR01Yes
Feb 12, 2021MO01Yes
Feb 8, 2021MT02Yes
Dec 16, 2020IN00Yes
Dec 7, 2020KY00Yes
Feb 6, 2020GA01Yes
Dec 10, 2019MO00Yes
Oct 20, 2019WY00Yes
Oct 15, 2019WI00Yes
Aug 25, 2019NC00Yes
Jan 30, 2019ME00Yes
Jan 10, 2019IN01Yes