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PINNACLE 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 14.3% (24-mo)7 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 14.3% (24-mo)21 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

23.1% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 19.3 pts across the window — latest above 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
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 27-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
27
Inspections · 24 mo
21
Annualized
≈11 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

25%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
89%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
49%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
49%
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 Driving31
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 5 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance8 · 2 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance8
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance6 · 3 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance4
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 392.60 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving2
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

29 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 10/19/2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

15ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
5False logs
8Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 20 total · 2 in 24 mo

20
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20246116
20231001
20225025
20214104
20201001
20143023
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
09/25/2024LA00Yes
09/25/2024AR01Yes
01/14/2024AR00Yes
01/09/2024AL10Yes
01/08/2024IL00Yes
01/05/2024AR00Yes
02/14/2023AR00Yes
11/25/2022GA01Yes
10/22/2022NM00Yes
10/06/2022LA01Yes
09/26/2022AR00Yes
08/30/2022TN00Yes
12/23/2021IL00Yes
10/12/2021IN00Yes
05/21/2021KY10Yes
05/17/2021AR00Yes
06/02/2020IN00Yes
07/25/2014AR00Yes
06/04/2014OK02Yes
02/07/2014MO01Yes