Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2490648

HELDA EXPRESS LLC

OAK CREEK, WI 100

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 5.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 7 vehicle and 20 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 25.0 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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 12-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
12
Inspections · 24 mo
20
Annualized
≈10 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

80%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
72%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
16%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
34%
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 Driving16
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance3
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

15 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 12/15/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
3False logs
3Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 9 total · 0 in 24 mo

9
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
20202002
20194013
20181001
20171011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/27/2024KY00Yes
12/29/2020IA00Yes
02/20/2020IL00Yes
11/25/2019IN00Yes
11/05/2019CT00Yes
06/28/2019IN00Yes
03/22/2019OH01No
03/05/2018WI00Yes
06/24/2017WI01Yes