WILLOW EXPRESS LTD 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 25.0% (24-mo)20 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0% (24-mo)54 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

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

14.3% now● Stable

Holding near 14.3% — under 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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 38-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
38
Inspections · 24 mo
54
Annualized
27 / yr
Coverage
0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

39%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
21%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
63%
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 Driving35
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance17 · 5 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance11 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance5
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance3
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance1
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

12 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 06/05/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

10ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 70% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 32 total · 1 in 24 mo

32
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20232012
20221001
20211011
20202002
20193013
20184124
20171011
20161001
20151011
20123003
20112012
20102011
20091001
20081001
20074024
20061011
20041011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/01/2026MN00Yes
04/19/2023WI01Yes
03/21/2023MN00Yes
07/25/2022MN00Yes
06/22/2021IL01Yes
03/24/2020TX00Yes
03/06/2020MN00Yes
05/04/2019MN00Yes
01/09/2019MO00Yes
01/08/2019MN02Yes
08/29/2018IL00Yes
07/31/2018MN00Yes
06/26/2018WI18Yes
03/28/2018MN04Yes
08/15/2017WI01Yes
02/14/2016ND00Yes
11/09/2015IL01Yes
08/24/2012MN00Yes
01/23/2012WI00Yes
01/14/2012MN00Yes
03/17/2011WI00Yes
02/12/2011MN02Yes
12/20/2010MN00Yes
01/22/2010ND01No
08/08/2009MN00Yes