Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2269877

MEGA EXPRESS INC

LAREDO, TX 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 3.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 168 vehicle and 242 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

17.0% · 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 5.8 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
≈1.6 / 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
75
Inspections · 24 mo
242
Annualized
≈121 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

29%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
88%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
58%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
57%
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.

  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance51 · 9 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance37 · 4 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving34
  • 395.32 ELD — non-authenticated drivingHOS Compliance33
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance27 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance24 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance20 · 8 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance19
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance17
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance17

ELD & hours-of-service

102 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/11/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

68ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
19False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 88% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 26 total · 11 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
11
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264023
20253003
20244004
20231001
20222012
20202012
20191001
20181011
20171001
20153022
20132112
20122012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/27/2026AL01No
05/02/2026TX00Yes
03/31/2026LA00Yes
03/25/2026TX01Yes
06/19/2025TX00Yes
04/02/2025AR00Yes
01/22/2025TX00Yes
10/05/2024TX00Yes
09/05/2024TX00Yes
08/18/2024CA00Yes
08/06/2024WI00Yes
12/16/2023TX00Yes
03/16/2022TX01Yes
02/25/2022AL00Yes
05/18/2020TX01Yes
04/23/2020TX00Yes
04/07/2019TX00Yes
09/20/2018MI01Yes
10/02/2017TX00Yes
12/18/2015OH01Yes
12/12/2015AL00Yes
06/29/2015TN01No
12/17/2013AR11Yes
10/02/2013TX00Yes
09/27/2012OH01Yes