Carrier profile · USDOT 2100239 · MC-732527 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Orbital Express Inc

DBA ORBITAL

20 power unitsavg 3.5 yrMulti-region · 11 statesFRESNO, CA94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-732527 ACTIVE
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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 11.8%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 — 17 vehicle and 62 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 10.7 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

61 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 6

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
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 20-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
20
Inspections · 24 mo
62
Annualized
≈31 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

51%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
53%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
5%
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 Driving20 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

14ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
10False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 86% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 16 total · 1 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20241011
20231001
20222002
20201010
20181011
20171011
20165045
20153013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 8, 2025NM00Yes
May 23, 2024GA01Yes
Sep 13, 2023AR00Yes
Jul 20, 2022AR00Yes
Feb 24, 2022AR00Yes
May 25, 2020TN01No
Jun 18, 2018SC03Yes
May 14, 2017TN01Yes
Dec 8, 2016CA00Yes
Jun 21, 2016FL03Yes
Apr 10, 2016CA02Yes
Mar 19, 2016LA01Yes
Feb 25, 2016CA02Yes
Oct 7, 2015CA00Yes
Jul 3, 2015GA00Yes
Mar 25, 2015CA01Yes