Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 970130

DST EXPRESS LLC

SPRINGVILLE, UT 94

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 14.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 21 vehicle and 43 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 12.1 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 21-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
21
Inspections · 24 mo
43
Annualized
≈22 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
35%
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.

  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance15 · 3 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving14
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance2
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent 08/06/2023. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 21 total · 1 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251010
20241011
20221001
20211001
20201001
20191010
20183003
20171001
20141001
20122002
20111001
20101011
20091011
20071010
20051001
20041001
20032011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
11/12/2025UT01No
06/20/2024UT01Yes
06/30/2022UT00Yes
12/14/2021UT00Yes
12/15/2020UT00Yes
05/28/2019UT01No
07/27/2018UT00Yes
03/11/2018WY00Yes
02/19/2018UT00Yes
08/06/2017GA00Yes
10/07/2014UT00Yes
07/07/2012UT00Yes
02/02/2012TN00Yes
02/14/2011WY00Yes
03/22/2010UT04Yes
12/22/2009UT01Yes
01/19/2007UT01No
04/30/2005WY00Yes
05/11/2004WY00Yes
07/02/2003UT01No
05/27/2003IN00Yes