Carrier profile · USDOT 935760 · MC-403321 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Kisatchie Midnight Express LLC

79 power unitsavg 5.4 yrNational · 17 statesLUFKIN, TX94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-403321 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksstella-jones.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 13.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 104 vehicle and 143 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

16.0% · 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 13.2 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

143 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 14

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
≈0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 79-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
79
Inspections · 24 mo
143
Annualized
≈72 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

29%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
14%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
11%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
31%
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 Driving18 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 7 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jul 7, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 37 total · 4 in 24 mo

37
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20252012
20246035
20232002
20224004
20213013
20202002
20193013
20184024
20173022
20162002
20142002
20131001
20121001
20041001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 30, 2026LA01Yes
Nov 24, 2025PA00Yes
Oct 24, 2025TX01Yes
Dec 11, 2024MD00Yes
May 14, 2024TX01Yes
May 8, 2024TX04Yes
Apr 9, 2024TX00Yes
Apr 1, 2024TX00Yes
Mar 5, 2024TX01No
May 8, 2023TX00Yes
Jan 3, 2023OK00Yes
Sep 1, 2022TX00Yes
Jul 19, 2022TX00Yes
May 7, 2022MD00Yes
Jan 4, 2022MD00Yes
Dec 2, 2021MD00Yes
Nov 15, 2021LA01Yes
Oct 22, 2021TX00Yes
Dec 17, 2020TX00Yes
Mar 4, 2020TX00Yes
Sep 18, 2019TX00Yes
Aug 15, 2019VA01Yes
Jul 22, 2019MD00Yes
Oct 30, 2018TX00Yes
Sep 7, 2018TX00Yes