Carrier profile · USDOT 392583 · MC-231211 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Metro Companies Inc

DBA METRO XPRESS

108 power unitsavg 7.7 yrNational · 37 statesWICHITA, KS88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-231211 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksmetroxpress.comFMCSA SAFER

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 9.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 93 vehicle and 172 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

9.1% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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

172 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 13

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 108-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
108
Inspections · 24 mo
172
Annualized
≈86 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

74%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
44%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
27%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
7%
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 Driving60 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance19 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 2 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS
  • 177.823 Other violationOther5 · 3 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 172.502 Other violationOther2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

9 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 2, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

3ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
2False logs
2Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 131 total · 3 in 24 mo

131
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
5
Fatal
56
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252012
20243003
20233003
20225005
20213003
20206036
20198028
20183013
20172022
20163003
20154114
20145035
20131001
20113003
20109129
20094014
20086155
20079078
20063023
20059138
20045044
20035115
20021011
20014033
20004023
19995035
19983012
19974033
19962022
19952012
19942021
19931001
19921001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 24, 2026OK00Yes
Dec 2, 2025KS00Yes
Jul 18, 2025KS01Yes
Jul 31, 2024TX00Yes
Apr 8, 2024GA00Yes
Jan 31, 2024KS00Yes
Oct 26, 2023KY00Yes
Oct 22, 2023IN00Yes
Feb 14, 2023PA00Yes
Dec 4, 2022OR00Yes
Jul 31, 2022NC00Yes
May 5, 2022OK00Yes
May 5, 2022OK00Yes
Jan 4, 2022IN00Yes
Nov 10, 2021OH00Yes
Nov 10, 2021PA00Yes
Jul 26, 2021TN00Yes
Nov 2, 2020MO00Yes
Sep 27, 2020IL00Yes
Sep 15, 2020IL01Yes
May 11, 2020NC02Yes
Feb 19, 2020IL02Yes
Jan 13, 2020KS00Yes
Nov 14, 2019MS00Yes
Oct 24, 2019AR00Yes