EXPRESS CG LLC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 22.2% (24-mo)9 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.9% (24-mo)17 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

22.2% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 11.6 pts across the window — latest under the 22.26% national benchmark.

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 8-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
8
Inspections · 24 mo
17
Annualized
9 / yr
Coverage
1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

25%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
44%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
60%
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.

  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance8
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving3
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance2
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving2
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.81 HornVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 08/31/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 1 total · 1 in 24 mo

1
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251111
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/09/2025SC11Yes