Carrier profile · USDOT 2517538 · MC-873662 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

NHT EXPRESS INC

36 power unitsavg 4.9 yrMulti-region · 13 statesDALTON, GA82/100
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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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 7 vehicle and 20 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 12.5 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

18 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 5

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 36-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
36
Inspections · 24 mo
20
Annualized
≈10 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

55%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
27%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
24%
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 Driving17 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 23, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 60% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 13 total · 1 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20241011
20231001
20221011
20212012
20202002
20185005
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 10, 2025OH00Yes
Jul 27, 2024TX01Yes
Jan 18, 2023TN00Yes
May 23, 2022AR01Yes
Oct 12, 2021AL00Yes
Jun 1, 2021MO01Yes
Nov 24, 2020TN00Yes
Oct 22, 2020TN00Yes
Nov 20, 2018GA00Yes
Oct 30, 2018AR00Yes
Aug 16, 2018TN00Yes
Jun 30, 2018TN00Yes
May 2, 2018IA00Yes