Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 948963

SUNDOWN EXPRESS LLC

GATES, TN 100

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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 4 vehicle and 27 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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
≈0.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 21-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
21
Inspections · 24 mo
27
Annualized
≈14 / yr
Coverage
≈0.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

42%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
8%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
.71measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1
  • 383.51 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.81 HornVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

2 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/20/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 21 total · 0 in 24 mo

21
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20231011
20202002
20193012
20184004
20171010
20162002
20122002
20112011
20101011
20081011
20042012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
11/09/2023TN02Yes
10/16/2020TN00Yes
08/25/2020MO00Yes
11/22/2019TN00Yes
05/16/2019TN00Yes
03/28/2019TN01No
08/01/2018KY00Yes
07/25/2018TN00Yes
03/16/2018TN00Yes
01/17/2018NC00Yes
10/05/2017NC01No
09/26/2016SC00Yes
03/21/2016TN00Yes
06/11/2012MS00Yes
06/07/2012MS00Yes
04/13/2011TN01No
03/25/2011TN00Yes
04/29/2010TN01Yes
10/24/2008TN02Yes
10/05/2004TN00Yes
08/25/2004TN01Yes