Carrier profile · USDOT 2587370 · MC-914579 · Updated Jul 13, 2026

PLATINUM EXPRESS INC

30 power unitsavg 4.8 yrMulti-region · 11 statesYUBA CITY, CA81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-914579 ACTIVE
Verified linksplatinumexpress.comFMCSA SAFER

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 32.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 342 vehicle and 467 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.9% · 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 11.3 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

440 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 41

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈7.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
467
Annualized
≈234 / yr
Coverage
≈7.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

80%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
88%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
44%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
77%
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 Driving203 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance144 · 113 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance106 · 7 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance61 · 31 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance60 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance59 · 44 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance51 · 8 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance51 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance34 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance25 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

93 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 1, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

38ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
28False logs
19Drove over hours

Trending worse — 63% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 40 total · 3 in 24 mo

40
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251001
20244014
2023100310
20225015
20217037
20204014
20193003
20183113
20172021
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 16, 2026OR00Yes
Jun 17, 2025OR00Yes
Dec 10, 2024AZ08Yes
Jul 21, 2024CA00Yes
Jan 12, 2024NV00Yes
Jan 5, 2024UT00Yes
Dec 8, 2023CO00Yes
Nov 24, 2023WY00Yes
Aug 18, 2023CA00Yes
Jul 7, 2023NV01Yes
Jul 5, 2023NV01Yes
Jul 4, 2023NV00Yes
Apr 2, 2023CA00Yes
Feb 12, 2023NV00Yes
Jan 5, 2023CA01Yes
Jan 2, 2023CO00Yes
Nov 1, 2022PA00Yes
Oct 1, 2022OR00Yes
May 4, 2022MO00Yes
Apr 7, 2022SD00Yes
Jan 14, 2022UT02Yes
Aug 31, 2021CA03Yes
Aug 26, 2021CA00Yes
May 30, 2021CA00Yes
May 8, 2021NM01Yes