Carrier profile · USDOT 3235834 · MC-1015422 · Updated Jun 19, 2026

SLI EXPRESS INC

120 power unitsavg 4 yrNational · 39 statesAURORA, IL94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-1015422 ACTIVEHAZMAT
Verified linkssliexpressinc.comFMCSA SAFER

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 20.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 101 vehicle and 264 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

16.1% · 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 6.6 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

258 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 19

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 120-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
120
Inspections · 24 mo
264
Annualized
≈132 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

71%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
63%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
36%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
42%
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 Driving92 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 14 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance11 · 6 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance11 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 4 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

35 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 5, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

26ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
9False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 81% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 13 total · 4 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20252022
20241001
20232012
20222002
20201001
20193012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 4, 2026LA00Yes
Feb 17, 2026WY00Yes
Jul 25, 2025FL01Yes
Mar 18, 2025TN02Yes
Jun 2, 2024NJ00Yes
Dec 22, 2023IL01Yes
Jan 26, 2023MI00Yes
Nov 3, 2022WY00Yes
Oct 16, 2022AL00Yes
Mar 13, 2020WA00Yes
Nov 30, 2019ND00Yes
Nov 22, 2019NY00Yes
Nov 20, 2019WI01No