Carrier profile · USDOT 898734 · MC-390687 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Golden Express Trucking Inc

19 power unitsavg 7 yrRegional · 5 statesSURREY, BC100/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-390687 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksgeti.caFMCSA 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 21.7%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 — 46 vehicle and 65 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

27.3% · 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 8.9 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

62 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 7

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.7 / 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
19
Inspections · 24 mo
65
Annualized
≈33 / yr
Coverage
≈1.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

65%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
16%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
47%
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 Driving25 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 5 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 3 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

20 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 10, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

15ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

6 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 10 total · 2 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20241001
20231001
20211001
20201001
20171001
20142002
20061001
20051001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 27, 2025CA01Yes
Aug 23, 2024WA00Yes
Aug 14, 2023CA00Yes
Oct 14, 2021CA00Yes
Oct 1, 2020CA00Yes
Jan 16, 2017WA00Yes
Nov 9, 2014CA00Yes
Oct 6, 2014CA00Yes
Nov 30, 2006CA00Yes
May 24, 2005TX00Yes