Carrier profile · USDOT 2818109 · MC-939479 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

W EXPRESS INC

10 power unitsavg 5.8 yrNational · 24 statesCHICAGO, IL56/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-939479 INACTIVE
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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 36.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 30 vehicle and 78 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 8.1 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

71 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 11

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
≈3.9 / 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
10
Inspections · 24 mo
78
Annualized
≈39 / yr
Coverage
≈3.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

95%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
20%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
54%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
51%
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 Driving78 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance13 · 3 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 12 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance12 · 7 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 1 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

14 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jul 24, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

9ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
2False logs
0Drove over hours

4 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 37 total · 3 in 24 mo

37
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253013
20243103
20234014
20228148
20216046
20205024
20197047
20181001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 16, 2025NC00Yes
Feb 25, 2025OH00Yes
Jan 22, 2025KY03Yes
Apr 30, 2024AL10Yes
Apr 25, 2024OH00Yes
Jan 25, 2024AL00Yes
Jul 10, 2023TN00Yes
May 5, 2023VA00Yes
Mar 10, 2023IL00Yes
Mar 3, 2023OH01Yes
Sep 24, 2022IN00Yes
Aug 5, 2022GA02Yes
Aug 4, 2022PA01Yes
Aug 4, 2022PA01Yes
Aug 4, 2022PA01Yes
Jul 18, 2022CT10Yes
Jul 14, 2022OH00Yes
Jun 17, 2022TN00Yes
Dec 30, 2021IL01Yes
Sep 30, 2021VA00Yes
Aug 20, 2021IN01Yes
Mar 16, 2021IN01Yes
Jan 8, 2021IN01Yes
Jan 3, 2021PA00Yes
Oct 27, 2020MI00Yes