Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1322425

OREST EXPRESS INC

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL 94

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 5.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 56 vehicle and 181 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

7.1% · 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 2.5 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
≈1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 65-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
65
Inspections · 24 mo
181
Annualized
≈91 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

58%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
20%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
26%
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 Driving26
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance14
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance9
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance4
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance3
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3

ELD & hours-of-service

13 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/06/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

10ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 60% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 21 total · 2 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20242002
20231011
20222002
20201001
20184023
20172002
20161001
20151001
20131001
20121001
20113003
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
04/03/2026MO00Yes
02/17/2026WY01Yes
06/21/2024WY00Yes
03/09/2024WY00Yes
01/25/2023IL01Yes
10/10/2022IN00Yes
05/06/2022WA00Yes
11/14/2020WY00Yes
10/10/2018NV01No
07/17/2018IA02Yes
06/05/2018IL00Yes
03/11/2018CA00Yes
12/17/2017UT00Yes
04/29/2017MO00Yes
01/17/2016WY00Yes
10/21/2015KY00Yes
08/06/2013NV00Yes
12/15/2012WY00Yes
09/06/2011IL00Yes
05/20/2011IN00Yes
05/04/2011WY00Yes