Carrier profile · USDOT 1150323 · MC-464547 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Highlander Xpress Inc

4 power unitsavg 9.1 yrMulti-region · 8 statesMIAMI, FL75/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-464547 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkshighlanderxpress.comFMCSA 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 23.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 13.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 30 vehicle and 45 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

37.5% · 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 23.6 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

43 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 5

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
≈5.6 / 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
4
Inspections · 24 mo
45
Annualized
≈23 / yr
Coverage
≈5.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

89%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
66%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
84%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
81%
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 Driving27 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 8 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness6 · 6 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance5 · 4 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

23 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 18, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

21ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
6False 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· 38 total · 4 in 24 mo

38
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
15
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20251001
20243012
20233023
20224014
20211001
20201011
20191001
20174014
20162012
20151011
20143133
20131011
20111011
20063013
20051001
20046016
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 24, 2026TX00Yes
Jan 21, 2026TX00Yes
Aug 21, 2025LA00Yes
Oct 23, 2024LA00Yes
Jul 26, 2024LA00Yes
Jul 24, 2024TX01No
Nov 13, 2023FL00Yes
Mar 27, 2023FL01Yes
Jan 31, 2023TX01Yes
Jul 13, 2022CA00Yes
May 16, 2022CA00Yes
May 15, 2022LA00Yes
Apr 10, 2022TX01Yes
Oct 20, 2021LA00Yes
Mar 20, 2020CA01Yes
Sep 7, 2019CA00Yes
Oct 7, 2017AL00Yes
Aug 17, 2017MS00Yes
May 13, 2017FL01Yes
Apr 27, 2017FL00Yes
Sep 10, 2016FL01Yes
Jun 20, 2016FL00Yes
Apr 22, 2015TX02Yes
Sep 24, 2014LA01Yes
Sep 8, 2014CA01Yes