Carrier profile · USDOT 2931850 · MC-990119 · Updated Jul 26, 2026

VL Trucking Express Inc

DBA ACE TRANSFORMATION

1 power unitavg 3.9 yrNational · 46 statesMT PROSPECT, IL94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-990119 ACTIVEHAZMAT
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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 21.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 515 vehicle and 834 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.9% · 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 1.8 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

834 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '26 · 73

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈417.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
1
Inspections · 24 mo
834
Annualized
≈417 / yr
Coverage
≈417.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

94%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
92%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
51%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
40%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
49%
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 Driving220 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance71 · 59 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance69 · 13 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance57 · 8 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance31 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance30 · 0 OOS
  • 177.823 Other violationOther26 · 11 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance26 · 5 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance24 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance23 · 5 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

151 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 11, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

86ELD device issues
7No log / no ELD
42False logs
6Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 24 total · 24 in 24 mo

24
Total crashes
24
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20269068
2025150215
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 8, 2026AZ01Yes
Apr 29, 2026GA01Yes
Apr 16, 2026IN00Yes
Apr 7, 2026MI01Yes
Apr 2, 2026TX01No
Mar 17, 2026MD00Yes
Feb 26, 2026MN02Yes
Feb 9, 2026MO01Yes
Jan 16, 2026SD00Yes
Dec 18, 2025PA01Yes
Dec 11, 2025IA00Yes
Nov 21, 2025TX00Yes
Nov 20, 2025AR00Yes
Nov 13, 2025IL00Yes
Nov 11, 2025IN00Yes
Nov 6, 2025PA00Yes
Nov 5, 2025TN00Yes
Oct 30, 2025VA01Yes
Oct 14, 2025CT00Yes
Jun 20, 2025CT00Yes
May 19, 2025KY00Yes
Apr 10, 2025MI00Yes
Feb 21, 2025PA00Yes
Feb 17, 2025VA00Yes