Carrier profile · USDOT 1626632 · MC-600967 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Trans Xpress Line Inc

78 power unitsavg 5 yrNational · 26 statesBAKERSFIELD, CA70/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-600967 INACTIVE
Verified linkstransxpressline.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 12.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 101 vehicle and 181 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.5% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 11.9 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

170 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
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 78-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
78
Inspections · 24 mo
182
Annualized
≈91 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

46%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
96%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
36%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
12%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
57%
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 Driving129 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance47 · 6 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance35 · 5 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance34 · 9 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance32 · 19 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance22 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance21 · 6 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance16 · 9 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance16 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

119 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Nov 14, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

48ELD device issues
4No log / no ELD
25False logs
34Drove over hours

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 26 total · 6 in 24 mo

26
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254014
20245015
20234004
20222012
20213003
20193013
20181101
20171001
20161001
20121011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 17, 2026GA00Yes
Jul 19, 2025NV01Yes
May 18, 2025UT00Yes
Feb 15, 2025IN00Yes
Jan 25, 2025TX00Yes
Nov 29, 2024CA00Yes
Jul 3, 2024WA00Yes
Apr 24, 2024IN04Yes
Jan 17, 2024OR00Yes
Jan 12, 2024WY00Yes
Sep 6, 2023WA00Yes
Jun 15, 2023AZ00Yes
Mar 7, 2023OR00Yes
Mar 7, 2023OR00Yes
Aug 18, 2022AZ00Yes
Apr 5, 2022CA01Yes
Dec 30, 2021WA00Yes
Dec 11, 2021AZ00Yes
Oct 24, 2021CA00Yes
Mar 14, 2019CA00Yes
Feb 27, 2019OR00Yes
Jan 2, 2019CA01Yes
Aug 22, 2018CA10Yes
Jan 24, 2017NM00Yes
Nov 7, 2016KS00Yes