Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 3976663

LIGHTNING EXPRESS LLC

AURORA, CO 88

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 12.5%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 54.5%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 8 vehicle and 11 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

16.7% · 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 14.5 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.

Heavily inspected

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈2.8 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.

Registered power units: 2
Inspections · 24 mo: 11
Annualized: ≈6 / yr
Coverage: ≈2.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

61%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

98%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

81%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

37%

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.

395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance12 · 3 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 5 OOS
393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance7
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving5
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving5
391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness5 · 4 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3
391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness3 · 1 OOS
383.95 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
396.9 Inspection of motor vehicles in operationVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

21 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 01/10/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

3ELD device issues

4No log / no ELD

3False logs

11Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 1 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year		Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2025		1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
06/19/2025	TX	0	0	Yes