Carrier profile · USDOT 2512940 · MC-871621 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Silver City Express LLC

14 power unitsavg 9.2 yrNational · 18 statesST LOUIS, MO86/100
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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 48.3%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 29 vehicle and 54 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

44.4% · 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 4.5 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

52 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 5

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.9 / 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
14
Inspections · 24 mo
54
Annualized
≈27 / yr
Coverage
≈1.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

81%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
79%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
35%
Driver Fitness
Alert
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
95%
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 Driving25 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance23 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance22 · 18 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance16 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance13 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance11 · 8 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

32 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Feb 3, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
10False logs
8Drove over hours

Trending worse — 89% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 13 total · 2 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20242002
20232002
20223003
20211001
20203003
20191001
20171011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 14, 2024AL00Yes
Aug 29, 2024KY00Yes
May 31, 2023IL00Yes
Feb 17, 2023KS00Yes
Dec 22, 2022MO00Yes
Nov 20, 2022ID00Yes
Nov 14, 2022IL00Yes
Aug 11, 2021KY00Yes
Dec 29, 2020MO00Yes
Dec 26, 2020LA00Yes
Oct 28, 2020MO00Yes
Apr 5, 2019IN00Yes
Jul 6, 2017PA01Yes