Carrier profile · USDOT 2578534 · MC-902373 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Road King Express Inc

135 power unitsavg 4.4 yrNational · 43 statesROMEOVILLE, IL81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-902373 ACTIVE
Verified linksroadkingexpressinc.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 25.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 159 vehicle and 313 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12.8% · 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 10.2 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

308 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 22

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
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 135-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
135
Inspections · 24 mo
313
Annualized
≈157 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

84%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
47%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
21%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
68%
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 Driving166 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance38 · 27 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance28 · 7 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance25 · 9 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance11 · 6 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance9 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

25 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 6, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

14ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
7False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 64% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 41 total · 16 in 24 mo

41
Total crashes
16
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20268018
20257045
20243013
20232002
20228037
20216126
20201001
20196026
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 9, 2026CO00Yes
Jun 30, 2026PA00Yes
Jun 9, 2026MO00Yes
May 18, 2026TX00Yes
Mar 24, 2026NC07Yes
Feb 5, 2026TN00Yes
Jan 28, 2026TX00Yes
Jan 21, 2026PA00Yes
Dec 12, 2025FL00Yes
Aug 19, 2025TX00Yes
Aug 8, 2025MO01No
May 19, 2025TX01No
May 7, 2025TN01Yes
May 7, 2025TN01Yes
May 6, 2025KY00Yes
Oct 6, 2024OK00Yes
Jul 25, 2024AZ00Yes
May 4, 2024KS01Yes
Apr 6, 2023IL00Yes
Jan 9, 2023OR00Yes
Dec 16, 2022MN01Yes
Aug 30, 2022CA00Yes
Aug 30, 2022CA00Yes
Aug 4, 2022KY01No
Jul 19, 2022FL01Yes