Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2420344

DES EXPRESS LLC

DALLAS, TX 81

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 30.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 36 vehicle and 79 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

42.9% · 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 21.1 pts 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.0 / 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
20
Inspections · 24 mo
79
Annualized
≈40 / yr
Coverage
≈2.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

52%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
92%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
34%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
82%
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.

  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance43 · 9 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving22
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 9 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance16 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance14 · 2 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance10
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance9
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance7 · 2 OOS
  • 395.32 ELD — non-authenticated drivingHOS Compliance6
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance6

ELD & hours-of-service

72 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/14/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

20ELD device issues
6No log / no ELD
36False logs
7Drove over hours

Trending worse — 80% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 23 total · 1 in 24 mo

23
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20243113
20231011
20221001
20212102
20201001
20186045
20176016
20162002
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
09/07/2024TX00Yes
02/02/2024TX01Yes
01/25/2024TX10Yes
02/09/2023CO01Yes
12/03/2022CO00Yes
10/12/2021CO00Yes
04/22/2021CO10Yes
06/01/2020CO00Yes
10/17/2018TX01No
09/14/2018CO01Yes
07/15/2018TX00Yes
05/07/2018TX01Yes
03/28/2018CO00Yes
03/06/2018TX01Yes
11/07/2017CO00Yes
09/15/2017TX01Yes
07/31/2017CO00Yes
04/30/2017TX00Yes
04/15/2017TX00Yes
03/25/2017LA00Yes
05/21/2016TX00Yes
04/27/2016CO00Yes
02/15/2015CO00Yes