Carrier profile · USDOT 1677748 · MC-616659 · Updated Jul 22, 2026

Sandhu Express Inc

50 power unitsavg 4.1 yrNational · 16 statesFRESNO, CA81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-616659 ACTIVE
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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 10.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 48 vehicle and 105 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12.5% · 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 16.0 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

103 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '25 · 8

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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 50-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
50
Inspections · 24 mo
105
Annualized
≈53 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

78%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
89%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
40%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
64%
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 Driving48 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance35 · 8 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance15 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving14 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance12 · 6 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance11 · 6 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

71 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 11, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

24ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
34False logs
11Drove over hours

Trending worse — 88% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 26 total · 6 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20253023
20232012
20211011
20192002
20187037
20173003
20161001
20154024
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 13, 2026CA00Yes
Feb 2, 2026FL00Yes
Jan 16, 2026GA00Yes
May 12, 2025VA01Yes
Feb 26, 2025CA00Yes
Jan 21, 2025SC01Yes
Dec 14, 2023TX00Yes
Nov 25, 2023NM01Yes
May 25, 2021CA01Yes
May 19, 2019AZ00Yes
Feb 17, 2019NM00Yes
Dec 8, 2018AL00Yes
Nov 7, 2018CA00Yes
Sep 8, 2018TX00Yes
Aug 1, 2018SC02Yes
Jun 20, 2018CA01Yes
May 8, 2018TX00Yes
Feb 13, 2018FL01Yes
Aug 15, 2017AL00Yes
Mar 22, 2017AZ00Yes
Jan 13, 2017AZ00Yes
Feb 4, 2016AL00Yes
Aug 16, 2015AL00Yes
Jun 1, 2015CA00Yes
May 10, 2015CA01Yes