Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2428621

M&L EXPRESS LLC

HAGERSTOWN, MD 80

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 46.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 26 vehicle and 42 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

42.9% · 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 19.9 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
≈2.3 / 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
9
Inspections · 24 mo
42
Annualized
≈21 / yr
Coverage
≈2.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

83%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
73%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
43%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
87%
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 Driving124
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance35 · 21 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance29 · 10 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance18 · 8 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance14
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance12
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance9
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving5 · 5 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5

ELD & hours-of-service

25 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 07/28/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
6No log / no ELD
8False logs
0Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 5 total · 0 in 24 mo

5
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20232012
20211001
20201001
20161001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
10/27/2023KY00Yes
09/21/2023VA01Yes
11/24/2021LA00Yes
11/05/2020AR00Yes
02/20/2016MD00Yes