PEPLASTIC EXPRESS 88

PLASTIC EXPRESS 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 4.3% (24-mo)185 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.0% (24-mo)248 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

6.0% now● Stable

Holding near 6.0% — 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
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 281-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
281
Inspections · 24 mo
248
Annualized
≈124 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
26%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
67%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
12%
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 Driving57
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance20 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance16 · 4 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance7
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness6 · 6 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance4
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance4

ELD & hours-of-service

20 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 09/15/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

16ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 69% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 77 total · 12 in 24 mo

77
Total crashes
12
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
25
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
2025110410
20244023
2023110310
202210049
20217027
20207007
20194013
20185025
20174004
20162002
20141001
20112022
20091001
20082112
20071001
20051011
20041001
20001011
19962022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
11/21/2025OK00Yes
11/14/2025TX01Yes
09/19/2025UT01No
07/16/2025CA00Yes
07/10/2025NC00Yes
07/08/2025CA00Yes
06/12/2025GA00Yes
05/06/2025AZ00Yes
04/30/2025AZ03Yes
03/17/2025NJ01Yes
03/13/2025PA00Yes
10/09/2024NY01No
05/29/2024UT00Yes
03/08/2024GA00Yes
01/24/2024CA01Yes
12/05/2023NJ00Yes
11/13/2023CA00Yes
10/17/2023CA01Yes
09/16/2023NC00Yes
08/24/2023NJ00Yes
07/26/2023TX00Yes
06/06/2023TX00Yes
05/10/2023TX01No
03/24/2023AZ00Yes
03/18/2023TX01Yes