Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2407477

MS EXPRESS LLC

SUWANEE, GA 82

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 19.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 106 vehicle and 170 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

14.3% · 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 9.0 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 78-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
78
Inspections · 24 mo
170
Annualized
≈85 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

86%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
80%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
92%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
79%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
82%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance56 · 14 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving46 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance28
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance25 · 16 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance20 · 11 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance19 · 2 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness16 · 2 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance15 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance14
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance13

ELD & hours-of-service

36 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/06/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

13ELD device issues
13No log / no ELD
8False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 92% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 34 total · 4 in 24 mo

34
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20244023
20236016
20226136
20213013
20202012
20195024
20184014
20171001
20161001
20141001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/04/2026MS01Yes
12/14/2024TX01No
09/10/2024TX00Yes
09/02/2024AL00Yes
03/01/2024AL04Yes
10/20/2023AL00Yes
09/21/2023AL00Yes
09/05/2023LA00Yes
07/24/2023AL00Yes
04/03/2023AL02Yes
04/01/2023AL00Yes
09/20/2022AL02Yes
09/18/2022TX00Yes
09/18/2022TX12Yes
04/21/2022AL00Yes
01/31/2022TX00Yes
01/22/2022AL01Yes
05/13/2021TX00Yes
02/09/2021TX00Yes
01/04/2021TX01Yes
02/25/2020TX01Yes
01/14/2020AL00Yes
06/26/2019AL01No
06/04/2019TX00Yes
06/04/2019TX00Yes