Carrier profile · USDOT 1769704 · MC-599500 · Updated Jul 24, 2026

SMARTWAY EXPRESS INC

45 power unitsavg 6.9 yrNational · 20 statesBUCKEYE, AZ88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-599500 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkssmartwayexp.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 12.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 191 vehicle and 313 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

14.8% · 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 2.2 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

301 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '25 · 22

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
≈3.5 / 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
45
Inspections · 24 mo
316
Annualized
≈158 / yr
Coverage
≈3.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

89%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
81%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
48%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
40%
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 Driving140 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance32 · 22 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance29 · 9 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance24 · 4 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance19 · 5 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance17 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

21ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
20False logs
17Drove over hours

Trending worse — 57% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 62 total · 9 in 24 mo

62
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
18
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254014
20247026
20224014
20215015
20202002
20194014
20186006
20173012
20163013
20152002
20141011
20132002
20121001
20114034
20106026
20097145
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 18, 2026WY00Yes
Nov 19, 2025NV00Yes
May 25, 2025OR00Yes
Mar 14, 2025TX00Yes
Jan 9, 2025NM01Yes
Dec 15, 2024TX00Yes
Nov 17, 2024CA00Yes
Oct 12, 2024NV00Yes
Aug 19, 2024CA01Yes
Jul 5, 2024TX00Yes
Jul 2, 2024PA01No
Mar 22, 2024WA00Yes
Dec 12, 2022AZ00Yes
Aug 19, 2022CA01Yes
Jun 26, 2022OR00Yes
May 1, 2022TX00Yes
Dec 26, 2021CA00Yes
Aug 21, 2021TX01Yes
Jun 11, 2021WY00Yes
Apr 2, 2021CA00Yes
Mar 10, 2021CA00Yes
Dec 13, 2020CA00Yes
Jan 21, 2020CA00Yes
May 10, 2019MO00Yes
Mar 27, 2019OR00Yes