HBHELL BENT XPRESS LLC 100

HELL BENT XPRESS 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 12.5% (24-mo)16 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.3% (24-mo)44 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

8.3% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 3.8 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.4 / 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
9
Inspections · 24 mo
44
Annualized
≈22 / yr
Coverage
≈2.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

43%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
49%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
62%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
11%
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 Driving12
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance1

ELD & hours-of-service

17 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/05/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

14ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
2False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 86% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.