Carrier profile · USDOT 1885300 · MC-679452 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Diesel Auto Express LLC

DBA DIESEL AUTO EXPRESS

97 power unitsavg 4.2 yrNational · 36 statesVANCOUVER, WA87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-679452 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksdieselautoexpress.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 30.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 83 vehicle and 214 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

43.8% · 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 6.7 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

213 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '26 · 21

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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 97-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
97
Inspections · 24 mo
214
Annualized
≈107 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

82%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
69%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
25%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
52%
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 Driving115 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance18 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance16 · 11 OOS
  • 393.128 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 11 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

41 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 29, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

20ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
15False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 65% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 26 total · 5 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20253023
20241001
20233023
20224014
20216006
20202012
20191001
20181011
20172002
20101001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 22, 2026ND00Yes
Feb 2, 2026WA00Yes
Sep 25, 2025NJ01Yes
Sep 3, 2025CA01Yes
Jan 11, 2025CA00Yes
Mar 28, 2024WA00Yes
Nov 3, 2023OH01Yes
Mar 16, 2023FL00Yes
Feb 1, 2023WY01Yes
Nov 2, 2022SC00Yes
Oct 22, 2022OR00Yes
Mar 6, 2022WY02Yes
Feb 23, 2022WA00Yes
Oct 5, 2021WA00Yes
May 15, 2021TX00Yes
Mar 24, 2021TX00Yes
Mar 11, 2021FL00Yes
Mar 9, 2021AL00Yes
Feb 27, 2021AL00Yes
Aug 14, 2020IL00Yes
May 1, 2020TN01Yes
Jan 14, 2019ID00Yes
Apr 6, 2018FL01Yes
Aug 8, 2017ID00Yes
Mar 13, 2017WA00Yes