Carrier profile · USDOT 2516438 · MC-873157 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Manila Express Inc

61 power unitsavg 3.4 yrMulti-region · 15 statesCARMEL, IN94/100
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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 14.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 98 vehicle and 195 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

11.8% · 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 5.4 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

188 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '26 · 17

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
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 61-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
61
Inspections · 24 mo
195
Annualized
≈98 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

58%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
70%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
27%
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 Driving71 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance18 · 8 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance17 · 7 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance17 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance15 · 8 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance11 · 5 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 3 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

36ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
13False logs
6Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 27 total · 4 in 24 mo

27
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251001
20244014
20231001
20222012
20214023
20203003
20192012
20185035
20172021
20161001
20151010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 23, 2026CA00Yes
Sep 11, 2025CA00Yes
Sep 28, 2024TX01Yes
Sep 12, 2024AL00Yes
May 2, 2024OK00Yes
Apr 13, 2024CA00Yes
May 2, 2023CA00Yes
Mar 1, 2022AR00Yes
Jan 21, 2022AZ02Yes
Oct 18, 2021GA01No
Jun 1, 2021LA00Yes
Feb 14, 2021TX00Yes
Jan 14, 2021CA01Yes
Dec 25, 2020CA00Yes
Sep 21, 2020CA00Yes
Apr 21, 2020CA00Yes
Dec 22, 2019OK00Yes
May 19, 2019TX01Yes
Nov 11, 2018NM03Yes
Oct 24, 2018NM00Yes
Sep 13, 2018TX01Yes
Jun 11, 2018TX00Yes
Apr 2, 2018LA01Yes
Mar 29, 2017TX01Yes
Feb 1, 2017TX01No