Carrier profile · USDOT 850216 · MC-397255 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Indian Creek Express LLC

37 power unitsavg 8 yrNational · 16 statesPIERCE, CO88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-397255 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksindiancreekexpress.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 20.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 35 vehicle and 89 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 9.8 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

88 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 9

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 37-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
37
Inspections · 24 mo
89
Annualized
≈45 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

71%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
51%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
6%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
48%
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 Driving51 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 10 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

21 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 9, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
8Drove over hours

Trending worse — 78% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 46 total · 3 in 24 mo

46
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253003
20243113
20233003
20222002
20205015
20192012
20183013
20175135
20163013
20154014
20144023
20122002
20112012
20101001
20072002
20031001
20011001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 13, 2025IL00Yes
Feb 7, 2025PA00Yes
Jan 23, 2025IN00Yes
Jul 5, 2024PA01Yes
Apr 6, 2024NE10Yes
Mar 19, 2024IN00Yes
Dec 23, 2023WY00Yes
Nov 4, 2023IL00Yes
Apr 1, 2023IN00Yes
Feb 17, 2022IL00Yes
Feb 14, 2022IN00Yes
Dec 19, 2020IA00Yes
Dec 16, 2020PA00Yes
Oct 9, 2020CO01Yes
Apr 8, 2020WV00Yes
Jan 3, 2020NE00Yes
Mar 12, 2019NY01Yes
Feb 1, 2019OH00Yes
Aug 7, 2018CO00Yes
Jul 24, 2018KS00Yes
Jun 16, 2018IL01Yes
Dec 29, 2017NJ00Yes
Oct 14, 2017NE00Yes
Jul 11, 2017KS51Yes
May 3, 2017KS01Yes