Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 3141234

EXPLORE TRADING LLC

MIDLAND, 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 31.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 119 vehicle and 123 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

31.3% · 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 8.8 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
≈1.8 / 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
35
Inspections · 24 mo
123
Annualized
≈62 / yr
Coverage
≈1.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
16%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
85%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
90%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance146 · 9 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving86
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance53 · 24 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance52
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance43 · 7 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance42 · 16 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance30
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance29 · 1 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance20
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance20 · 16 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 12/16/2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 22 total · 5 in 24 mo

22
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
2024101610
20234004
20222022
20194014
20181011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/14/2025TX00Yes
12/21/2024TX01Yes
09/17/2024TX01Yes
09/16/2024TX10Yes
08/29/2024TX03Yes
06/10/2024TX01Yes
05/30/2024TX00Yes
04/04/2024TX01Yes
02/27/2024TX00Yes
02/17/2024TX00Yes
02/10/2024TX01Yes
12/12/2023TX00Yes
08/18/2023TX00Yes
03/17/2023TX00Yes
01/31/2023TX00Yes
11/07/2022TX01Yes
11/06/2022TX02Yes
09/20/2019TX00Yes
09/12/2019TX00Yes
08/03/2019TX00Yes
05/28/2019TX02Yes
12/21/2018TX01Yes