Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2881104

RT EXPRESS LLC

PUYALLUP, WA 64

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 9.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 44 vehicle and 68 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.2% · 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 1.8 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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈34.0 / 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
1
Inspections · 24 mo
68
Annualized
≈34 / yr
Coverage
≈34.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

57%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
87%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
58%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
25%
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 Driving31
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance22 · 5 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance14 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance13
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness5 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance4

ELD & hours-of-service

44 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 07/09/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
15No log / no ELD
7False logs
14Drove over hours

2 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 8 total · 1 in 24 mo

8
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20231101
20222012
20212011
20181001
20171001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
01/29/2025CA02Yes
08/30/2023IN10Yes
09/25/2022CO00Yes
07/11/2022TN02Yes
10/20/2021CO00Yes
01/15/2021IA01No
11/10/2018OH00Yes
12/12/2017MD00Yes