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NORTHERN EXPRESS LLC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 13.6% (24-mo)22 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)59 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

0.0% now● Stable

Holding near 0.0% — under the 22.26% national benchmark.

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
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 40-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
40
Inspections · 24 mo
59
Annualized
≈30 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

62%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
14%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
31%
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 Driving25
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance2
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving2
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

7 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 10/25/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

5ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

2 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 21 total · 3 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20251001
20241011
20232002
20221001
20211011
20202002
20192002
20181001
20172012
20161011
20152012
20141001
20121011
20111001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/29/2026FL00Yes
01/06/2026GA00Yes
04/17/2025OH00Yes
02/25/2024KY01Yes
09/10/2023OH00Yes
05/11/2023KY00Yes
10/04/2022MS00Yes
06/10/2021MO01Yes
12/21/2020KY00Yes
01/02/2020KY00Yes
11/15/2019OH00Yes
02/25/2019NY00Yes
02/06/2018NY00Yes
04/12/2017KY02Yes
03/21/2017AR00Yes
05/06/2016NY01Yes
10/01/2015NJ01Yes
02/15/2015OH00Yes
01/09/2014TX00Yes
06/04/2012MA02Yes
12/26/2011NY00Yes