Carrier profile · USDOT 2096162 · MC-731205 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

SCHNELL EXPRESS LLC

7 power unitsavg 9 yrRegional · 3 statesST LOUIS, MO86/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-731205 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 75.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 8 vehicle and 16 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

66.7% · 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 59.3 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

14 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 2

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 7-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
7
Inspections · 24 mo
16
Annualized
≈8 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

63%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
40%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
73%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
87%
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 Driving14 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance10 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance8 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 6 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

22 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 23, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

12ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
10False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 19 total · 0 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241001
20222002
20211001
20201111
20193013
20185015
20173013
20163013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 14, 2024MO00Yes
Sep 2, 2022IL00Yes
Aug 23, 2022IL00Yes
Aug 8, 2021MO00Yes
Oct 19, 2020IL12Yes
Oct 3, 2019MO01Yes
Jun 7, 2019MO00Yes
Jun 4, 2019IN00Yes
Nov 15, 2018KY00Yes
Oct 15, 2018MO02Yes
Jun 8, 2018MO00Yes
Feb 28, 2018MO00Yes
Jan 15, 2018IL00Yes
Aug 29, 2017MO00Yes
Aug 18, 2017OK01Yes
Mar 27, 2017IL00Yes
Oct 20, 2016MO01Yes
Oct 18, 2016MO00Yes
Feb 19, 2016IN00Yes