Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1984780

PRIORITY EXPRESS INC

STERLING HEIGHTS, MI 93

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 33.3%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 — 3 vehicle and 7 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 5.4 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 21-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
21
Inspections · 24 mo
7
Annualized
≈4 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

18%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
2.6measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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 Driving15
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance10
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance4
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving3
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving2
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 35 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 22 total · 0 in 24 mo

22
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
10
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
20235045
20221011
20202002
20185015
20171010
20161001
20153013
20141011
20132012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/19/2024IN00Yes
07/17/2023MI01Yes
05/19/2023MI01Yes
05/18/2023IL01Yes
05/15/2023MI00Yes
03/10/2023IN01Yes
08/05/2022MI01Yes
09/22/2020MI00Yes
07/16/2020MI00Yes
11/29/2018IN00Yes
05/16/2018IL00Yes
04/30/2018MI00Yes
02/13/2018MI01Yes
01/27/2018AR00Yes
09/17/2017TX02No
03/05/2016MI00Yes
08/06/2015IL00Yes
05/01/2015MI00Yes
02/21/2015OH03Yes
09/11/2014MI01Yes
08/22/2013TX00Yes
05/15/2013MI01Yes