Carrier profile · USDOT 1665599 · MC-612346 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

KY EXPRESS LLC

27 power unitsavg 9.9 yrMulti-region · 8 statesBOWLING GREEN, KY74/100
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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 53.3%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 — 15 vehicle and 30 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

85.7% · 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 58.1 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

29 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 3

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 27-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
27
Inspections · 24 mo
30
Annualized
≈15 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

25%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
25%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
50%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
93%
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 Driving15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 9 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 4 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 3 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.205 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Nov 7, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

0 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 34 total · 4 in 24 mo

34
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20252022
20241001
20234104
20222022
20212012
20203013
20197016
20182002
20163033
20151001
20141001
20132012
20123003
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 10, 2026TN01Yes
Jun 28, 2025TN01Yes
Feb 3, 2025AR02Yes
Nov 1, 2024FL00Yes
May 25, 2023TX10Yes
May 19, 2023IN00Yes
Jan 15, 2023TX00Yes
Jan 15, 2023TX00Yes
Jun 2, 2022FL01Yes
Mar 30, 2022AR01Yes
Oct 4, 2021TX00Yes
Jun 17, 2021OH01Yes
Sep 17, 2020AR01Yes
Jul 7, 2020TX00Yes
Feb 5, 2020PA00Yes
Dec 20, 2019TX00Yes
Oct 3, 2019LA00Yes
Jul 26, 2019KY00Yes
Jul 11, 2019TX02No
Feb 27, 2019MS00Yes
Feb 19, 2019TX00Yes
Feb 4, 2019TX00Yes
Feb 21, 2018TX00Yes
Jan 22, 2018AR00Yes
Dec 8, 2016FL01Yes