SUMMIT EXPRESS 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 6.3% (24-mo)16 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)35 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

9.1% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 3.0 pts across the window — latest under 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 17-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
17
Inspections · 24 mo
35
Annualized
18 / yr
Coverage
1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

39%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
54%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
68%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
32%
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 Driving11
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance2
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1

ELD & hours-of-service

10 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 11/04/2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 78% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 76 total · 0 in 24 mo

76
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
29
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20232022
20224004
20214013
20206035
2019140514
20185025
20176016
20167027
20153003
20143023
20132012
20123013
20104034
20091011
20083003
20064013
20051011
20044033
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
08/04/2023TX01Yes
07/12/2023GA02Yes
12/13/2022CA00Yes
08/08/2022NJ00Yes
06/30/2022CA00Yes
06/22/2022OK00Yes
07/14/2021KY00Yes
05/11/2021IN00Yes
03/25/2021TX01No
03/23/2021CA00Yes
12/03/2020IN00Yes
10/11/2020VA00Yes
03/14/2020IN01Yes
02/12/2020KS00Yes
01/18/2020LA02No
01/17/2020TX01Yes
11/07/2019CA00Yes
11/01/2019AZ01Yes
10/29/2019TX00Yes
08/05/2019MI00Yes
06/13/2019PA00Yes
05/19/2019IA02Yes
04/15/2019TN00Yes
04/14/2019IN00Yes
04/01/2019AR01Yes