RUPAL EXPRESS INC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 50.0% (24-mo)6 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)8 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

37.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 21.3 pts across the window — latest above the 22.26% national benchmark.

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
2.0 / 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
2
Inspections · 24 mo
8
Annualized
4 / yr
Coverage
2.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
38%
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 Driving5
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance1
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1
  • 392.71 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 12/20/2023. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

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