SHIPPING EXPERTS 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 28.0% (24-mo)25 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 9.1% (24-mo)44 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

23.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 9.5 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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 56-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
56
Inspections · 24 mo
44
Annualized
22 / yr
Coverage
0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

30%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
67%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
80%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
30%
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 Driving33 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 4 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance4
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance3 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness2 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

15 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/27/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
2False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 13 total · 6 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261101
20252012
20243013
20221011
20211001
20202012
20191001
20161011
20121011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/27/2026TX10Yes
07/26/2025TX00Yes
02/20/2025AZ01Yes
10/16/2024FL01Yes
08/27/2024TX00Yes
08/21/2024CA00Yes
02/13/2022AZ01Yes
05/23/2021CA00Yes
02/02/2020TX01Yes
01/30/2020TX00Yes
07/10/2019NM00Yes
07/29/2016CA01Yes
05/12/2012TX01Yes