HUNTER EXPRESS US INC 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 22.3% (24-mo)238 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.9% (24-mo)350 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

18.6% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 2.7 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
0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 202-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
202
Inspections · 24 mo
350
Annualized
175 / yr
Coverage
0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

54%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
50%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
86%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
71%
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 Driving129
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance77 · 11 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance51 · 11 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance50 · 37 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance45 · 21 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance27
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness24 · 13 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance22
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance20
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance17

ELD & hours-of-service

24 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/18/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

12ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
6False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 62 total · 16 in 24 mo

62
Total crashes
16
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
23
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264024
2025100410
20245124
20236036
20227107
2021100410
20209048
20194024
20181001
20175025
20161001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/14/2026MI01Yes
05/11/2026TX01Yes
03/25/2026AL00Yes
02/23/2026AR00Yes
10/28/2025TX00Yes
10/13/2025AR01Yes
09/21/2025IL02Yes
09/01/2025OK01Yes
08/04/2025TX00Yes
05/06/2025MI00Yes
03/30/2025KY00Yes
03/12/2025TX01Yes
02/19/2025MO00Yes
01/04/2025IL00Yes
12/03/2024TX01No
10/30/2024MO00Yes
07/13/2024AR11Yes
05/15/2024IN00Yes
03/21/2024MI00Yes
12/08/2023MI00Yes
04/30/2023TX05Yes
04/15/2023AR01Yes
02/20/2023MI01Yes
02/15/2023TX00Yes
01/06/2023TX00Yes