Carrier profile · USDOT 1893696 · MC-681443 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

ROAD TRAIN EXPRESS INC

104 power unitsavg 6.6 yrNational · 27 statesBRAMPTON, ON81/100
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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 22.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 61 vehicle and 143 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

35.0% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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

138 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '26 · 10

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 104-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
104
Inspections · 24 mo
143
Annualized
≈72 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

50%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
67%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
57%
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 Driving75 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance19 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance19 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 10 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 6 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

41 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 14, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

29ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
6False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 62% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 29 total · 3 in 24 mo

29
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20251001
20242002
20234034
20221011
20213003
20207107
20195005
20182002
20171001
20091011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 29, 2026FL00Yes
Jan 16, 2026IL00Yes
Jul 1, 2025AL00Yes
Feb 8, 2024TX00Yes
Jan 28, 2024MI00Yes
Jul 30, 2023KY01Yes
Apr 24, 2023MI02Yes
Apr 6, 2023IN01Yes
Feb 3, 2023OH00Yes
Dec 5, 2022GA01Yes
Nov 3, 2021IN00Yes
Jul 25, 2021KY00Yes
Feb 13, 2021KY00Yes
Dec 29, 2020IN00Yes
Nov 18, 2020SC10Yes
Nov 15, 2020OH00Yes
Jul 31, 2020KY00Yes
Jun 8, 2020WV00Yes
Apr 8, 2020IL00Yes
Feb 13, 2020NC00Yes
Nov 18, 2019OH00Yes
Nov 11, 2019MO00Yes
Oct 24, 2019SC00Yes
Jul 6, 2019PA00Yes
Jun 10, 2019IL00Yes