Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 576849

WIND WALKER EXPRESS INC

GIG HARBOR, WA 81

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 30.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 23 vehicle and 35 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 32.7 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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 16-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
16
Inspections · 24 mo
35
Annualized
≈18 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

18%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
25%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
67%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance21 · 2 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving17
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance14 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance10
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance4
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance2
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2

ELD & hours-of-service

15 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/18/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
12No log / no ELD
2False logs
1Drove over hours

Crash history· 34 total · 1 in 24 mo

34
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
4
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20231011
20221001
20212012
20202012
20183003
20171101
20162102
20153113
20145025
20132002
20121001
20113003
20101001
20072102
20051001
19982002
19961001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
08/23/2025CO00Yes
09/27/2023CO01Yes
06/13/2022WA00Yes
12/28/2021WA02Yes
07/27/2021WA00Yes
12/15/2020CO02Yes
04/16/2020CO00Yes
10/03/2018TX00Yes
09/04/2018WA00Yes
06/14/2018WA00Yes
10/23/2017TX10Yes
04/28/2016TX00Yes
01/20/2016TX10Yes
07/19/2015CA00Yes
07/07/2015CA11Yes
06/25/2015TX00Yes
10/10/2014CO00Yes
05/21/2014TX01Yes
05/13/2014TX01Yes
03/17/2014TX00Yes
03/16/2014CA00Yes
05/28/2013TX00Yes
02/01/2013WA00Yes
03/22/2012WA00Yes
12/13/2011WA00Yes