Carrier profile · USDOT 762601 · MC-343602 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

MULE TEAM EXPRESS INC

9 power unitsavg 11.3 yrMulti-region · 9 statesWEST MONROE, LA94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-343602 ACTIVE
Verified linksmuleteamexpress.netFMCSA 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 12.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 8 vehicle and 15 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 7.8 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

13 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '26 · 3

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 9-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
9
Inspections · 24 mo
15
Annualized
≈8 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
71%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
26%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
52%
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 Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

4 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Aug 6, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

3ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 10 total · 1 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
20231001
20222002
20201001
20191010
20142012
20121011
20111001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Aug 20, 2024FL00Yes
Feb 7, 2023LA00Yes
Dec 8, 2022LA00Yes
Jul 18, 2022AL00Yes
Sep 17, 2020TX00Yes
Feb 14, 2019TX01No
Dec 31, 2014LA00Yes
Sep 12, 2014MS01Yes
Jun 12, 2012LA01Yes
Aug 23, 2011AL00Yes