Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 3090372

KMS EXPRESS

PIXLEY, CA 81

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 25.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 4 vehicle and 4 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 33.3 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 3-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
3
Inspections · 24 mo
4
Annualized
≈2 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
21%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
2.88measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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.

  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance2
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance2
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.87 Warning flags on projecting loadsVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 396.7 Unsafe operationVehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.130 Cargo securement — heavy vehicles/equipmentVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/18/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 1 total · 1 in 24 mo

1
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261111
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/15/2026CA11Yes