VM EXPRESS LLC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 36.4% (24-mo)11 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 8.3% (24-mo)12 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

45.5% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 15.1 pts across the window — latest above the 22.26% national benchmark.

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
3.0 / 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
2
Inspections · 24 mo
12
Annualized
6 / yr
Coverage
3.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

15%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
62%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
48%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
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.

  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 6 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving7
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance1
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1
  • 387.301 Other violationOther1
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 09/11/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
1Drove over hours

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