Carrier profile · USDOT 2871660 · MC-963260 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

Proud Express Inc

28 power unitsavg 6.3 yrMulti-region · 15 statesBAKERSFIELD, CA82/100
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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 20.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 13.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 45 vehicle and 74 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 14.4 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

70 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 7

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 28-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
28
Inspections · 24 mo
74
Annualized
≈37 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

56%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
96%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
2%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
74%
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 Driving44 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance42 · 10 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance30 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance28 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance19 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance18 · 4 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance17 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance16 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance13 · 6 OOS
  • 395.32 ELD — non-authenticated drivingHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

128 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 9, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

65ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
31False logs
16Drove over hours

Trending worse — 66% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 12 total · 6 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20254014
20241011
20222002
20211001
20202012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 31, 2026CA01Yes
May 11, 2026AZ00Yes
Aug 10, 2025NC00Yes
Jul 16, 2025NC00Yes
May 29, 2025AZ01Yes
Feb 16, 2025TN00Yes
Jun 7, 2024WI01Yes
Dec 21, 2022IN00Yes
Feb 1, 2022OK00Yes
Jun 29, 2021CA00Yes
Aug 18, 2020NM00Yes
Feb 24, 2020TX01Yes