Carrier profile · USDOT 2330774 · MC-795684 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

TRX EXPRESS INC

97 power unitsavg 6.9 yrNational · 33 statesCREST HILL, IL74/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-795684 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkstrxexpress.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 45.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 92 vehicle and 212 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

38.9% · 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 16.3 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

204 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '26 · 13

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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 97-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
97
Inspections · 24 mo
212
Annualized
≈106 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

94%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
69%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
16%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
12%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
79%
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 Driving135 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance44 · 39 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance42 · 19 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance21 · 7 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance19 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance17 · 1 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance17 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance11 · 8 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

66 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 25, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

29ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
16False logs
18Drove over hours

Trending worse — 62% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 43 total · 10 in 24 mo

43
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20256016
20246036
20236016
20223023
20212012
20205035
20197027
20183012
20151001
20112112
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 22, 2026WI00Yes
Jan 31, 2026NC01Yes
Nov 7, 2025RI00Yes
Aug 1, 2025KY00Yes
Jul 28, 2025TN00Yes
Jun 11, 2025IN00Yes
Apr 3, 2025IN02Yes
Jan 10, 2025NC00Yes
Oct 14, 2024WI00Yes
Sep 27, 2024VA01Yes
Jul 8, 2024NJ01Yes
Mar 29, 2024SC02Yes
Mar 28, 2024MO00Yes
Jan 15, 2024KY00Yes
Nov 16, 2023IL00Yes
Sep 27, 2023MO00Yes
Aug 19, 2023MI00Yes
Jul 18, 2023IN00Yes
Apr 5, 2023MO02Yes
Jan 7, 2023OK00Yes
Sep 15, 2022MI01Yes
Sep 5, 2022IN01Yes
Jan 9, 2022PA00Yes
May 3, 2021IL01Yes
Feb 18, 2021NC00Yes