Carrier profile · USDOT 621518 · MC-538588 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Tidewater Express Inc

38 power unitsLocal · 2 statesHAMPTON, VA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-538588 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkstidewaterexpressinc.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 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 — 3 vehicle and 5 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. More resolved windows are needed to establish a trend. 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

5 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 1

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 38-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
38
Inspections · 24 mo
5
Annualized
≈3 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

1%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
1measure
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 Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 10 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 24 total · 6 in 24 mo

24
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
12
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261111
20253023
20243012
20221001
20193003
20182012
20171011
20161001
20151001
20141011
20122022
20102012
20091001
20052022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 17, 2026VA11Yes
Feb 17, 2025VA02Yes
Jan 28, 2025VA00Yes
Jan 24, 2025VA01Yes
Dec 20, 2024VA00Yes
Aug 17, 2024VA00Yes
Feb 9, 2024NC01No
Dec 22, 2022VA00Yes
Mar 27, 2019VA00Yes
Mar 26, 2019VA00Yes
Feb 1, 2019VA00Yes
Oct 12, 2018VA00Yes
Jul 2, 2018VA02Yes
Nov 22, 2017VA01Yes
May 31, 2016VA00Yes
Feb 24, 2015VA00Yes
Mar 8, 2014VA01Yes
Dec 6, 2012VA01Yes
Apr 22, 2012VA02Yes
Aug 17, 2010VA03Yes
Feb 1, 2010VA00Yes
Mar 17, 2009VA00Yes
Apr 25, 2005VA01Yes
Apr 25, 2005VA01Yes