Carrier profile · USDOT 2044644 · MC-21244 · Updated Aug 20, 2026

Western Express Forwarding LLC

DBA WESTERN EXPRESS

31 power unitsavg 5.8 yrMulti-region · 10 statesUPPER MARLBORO, MD94/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-21244 ACTIVE

Observed fleet · trailing 24 mo daily

31Power units

19 observed · MCS-150

3Trailers seen

Decoded · vPIC

5.8Avg age (yr)

2007–2026 · vPIC

Call dispatch(800) 918-7988 Email dispatchtmalloy@western-move.com

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Load decision · FMCSA snapshot · Aug 20, 2026

Clear to load

Active authority and a clean federal record. No blocking issues found.

Watch · 1

Driver out-of-service rate above average12.9% vs the 6.7% national average.

In good standing · 3

Active operating authorityActive for-hire authority is on file with FMCSA.Insurance on fileBIPD (liability) insurance is on file with FMCSA.Established 16 yearsOperating authority has been on file since 2010.

USDOT registration

yr registered

Active for-hire

Insurance (BIPD)$1M in force

FMCSA L&I

Vehicle OOS · 24-mo20.0%

▼ 22.26% nat'l

Crashes · fatal

Clean · 24 mo

USDOT registration

yr registered

Active for-hire

Insurance (BIPD)$1M in force

FMCSA L&I

Vehicle OOS · 24-mo20.0%

▼ 22.26% nat'l

Crashes · fatal

Clean · 24 mo

Vektor intelligence · beyond the federal recordProprietary signals computed from VIN-decoded inspections & daily FMCSA snapshots

Fleet typeIdentity

Small fleet

31 power units. Brokers price each fleet type apart.

Fleet age vs peersNewer

5.8 yr

Model years 2007–2026 · peer benchmark unavailable.

Identity stabilityStable

16 yr unchanged

Same registration since 2010 — no chameleon / reincarnation signal.

Safety

31 inspections · 24 mo · vs national benchmarks

Out-of-service rate· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 20.0%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 12.9%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 20 vehicle and 31 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

16.7% · 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 19.0 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

29 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 4

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.

Expected band

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.5 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 31-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 31
Inspections · 24 mo: 31
Annualized: ≈16 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

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 Maintenance16 · 5 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 4 OOS
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance3 · 2 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
395.34 ELD — malfunction proceduresHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

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Authority & Insurance

Can they legally + adequately haul your load?

Operating authority· 49 CFR · per type

Operating authority

Common: Active
Contract: None
Broker: Active

Insurance & bonds

BIPD / liability$1,000,000 in force

Cargo filing (census)Recorded per census

Surety bond (census)Recorded per census

Insurance adequacy· filed BIPD vs the $750K federal floor

$1M in forcegeneral-freight federal minimum

$750K floor

Filed BIPD coverage of $1M meets or exceeds the $750K federal minimum for general freight (49 CFR 387.9). Some commodities (hazmat, larger vehicles) require $1M–$5M — confirm against your load.

Insurance continuity· insurer · policy · lapses

$750K BIPD last filed ’22 · 10 insurers · 1 lapseCoverage lapse

United States’96–’00

Vanliner’02–’09

Wesco’14–’17

1993200220112020now

Shorter eras are too brief to label at this scale — all 10 insurers are named in the list below.

BIPD in force — $1,000,000 · VANLINER INSURANCE COMPANY · since Mar 2022

All 10 insurer eras · dates, limits, renewals

Insurer	Period	Limit	Renewals
PROTECTIVE INSURANCE CO.	Mar 2020 → Apr 2022	$750K	2
SAGAMORE INSURANCE COMPANY	Mar 2019 → Mar 2020	$750K	1
TRANSGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA INC.	Mar 2017 → Mar 2019	$750K	2
WESCO INSURANCE COMPANY	Mar 2014 → Apr 2017	$750K	2
AMERICAN GUARANTEE & LIABILITY INS. CO.	Mar 2011 → Mar 2014	$750K	1
HANOVER INSURANCE CO.	Aug 2009 → Mar 2010	$750K	2
VANLINER INSURANCE COMPANY	Jun 2002 → Aug 2009	$750K	1
AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY	Mar 2000 → Jul 2002	$750K	1
UNITED STATES FIRE INSURANCE CO.	Mar 1996 → Mar 2000	$750K	1
INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE CO.	Mar 1993 → Mar 1996	$750K	1

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Equipment

VIN-decoded · NHTSA vPIC

Capacity· power units = haulable capacity; trailers are towed

Registered power units (MCS-150): 31
Observed power (24 mo): 19
Trailers (towed): 3

Capacity is power units only — trailers are towed equipment and are never summed into a fleet-size figure.

Fleet age· model years · decoded VINs

5.8 yr

Average age

2026

Newest model yr

2007

Oldest model yr

50.0%

VINs decoded

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Operations & Lanes

Revealed by inspection density across 10 states · 24 mo

Operating footprint· revealed by roadside-inspection geography

Operating radiusMulti-region

revealed

States observed

US states

Inspections · 24 mo

MD busiest

Inspection density by state· each tile = a state · shade = inspections, last 24 mo

Home base

UPPER MARLBORO, MD

9900 FALLARD COURT

Top corridor

MD 10 · DC 5 · NC 5

Density

fewermore

Shade = roadside inspections, last 24 mo.

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Network & Fraud

Affiliated entities & reincarnation signals · for review, not a verdict

Last 12 months: 2 trucks also ran under 2 other carriers

VINs inspected under this carrier were recently inspected under other USDOTs too — the active double-broker / shared-equipment signal: USDOT 1623751 USDOT 194795Some overlap is legitimate (leased or sold equipment); review alongside the other signals.

Show all-time history (16 trucks · 20 carriers)

Across all inspections on record: USDOT 1443187 USDOT 1639678 USDOT 3010756 USDOT 4468425 USDOT 2177599 USDOT 3541117 USDOT 77949 USDOT 125550

Shares a registration email domain with other carriers

@western-move.com — 3 carriers: USDOT 671450 USDOT 1287330

Shares a company officer with other carriers

tom malloy — 2 carriers: USDOT 2864832

Capacity consistency· registered vs roadside-observed power units

Registered (MCS-150)

Observed (24 mo)

Shared w/ other carriers

Registered capacity materially exceeds what is observed roadside — the MCS-150 may be stale or the fleet under-utilized.

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Identity & Federal

FMCSA census + L&I dossier

Location

Physical address: 9900 FALLARD COURT, UPPER MARLBORO, MD, 20772
Operation: Interstate

Contact

Phone: (800) 918-7988
Fax: (240) 495-0989
Email: tmalloy@western-move.com
Web domain: western-move.com

Registration

Officers: Charles Lawrence Iii · Tom Malloy
USDOT / docket: 2044644 · MC-21244
First registered: Jun 11, 2010
Last MCS-150: Apr 27, 2026 · 681,000 mi (2025)
FMCSA safety rating: Not rated
Recordable crash rate: 0.00
D-U-N-S: 832799022

Fleet (self-reported · MCS-150)

Power units

Drivers

CDL drivers

681,000

Annual mileage

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Federal activity

Daily-captured FMCSA licensing & insurance changes — monitored by Vektor

Federal record activity· monitored daily by Vektor

No licensing or insurance changes captured since Vektor began monitoring this carrier (June 2026). Quiet is usually good.

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Verification summaryAuthority, insurance, safety and identity facts for WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC.

WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC (USDOT 2044644) has a Vektor safety score of 94/100 and a Clear to load verdict, from the carrier's FMCSA record refreshed Aug 20, 2026.

The carrier holds active common for-hire operating authority per FMCSA L&I as of Aug 20, 2026.

It has an active BIPD insurance filing with a $1,000,000 limit in force from VANLINER INSURANCE COMPANY effective Mar 14, 2022 in FMCSA L&I's current snapshot as of Aug 20, 2026.

Its vehicle out-of-service rate was 20.0% over the last 24 months, versus the 22.26% CVSA national average, from FMCSA roadside-inspection data refreshed Aug 20, 2026.

The carrier received 31 roadside inspections in the last 24 months — 20 vehicle-level and 31 driver-level — across 10 states, according to FMCSA roadside-inspection data refreshed Aug 20, 2026.

The carrier has 0 reportable crashes in the last 24 months and 0 fatal crashes across the full FMCSA crash record available as of Aug 20, 2026.

It reports 31 power units and 30 drivers in its most recent MCS-150 filing dated Apr 27, 2026.

It has no FMCSA-assigned safety rating in the federal record refreshed Aug 20, 2026.

Frequently asked

What is WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC's USDOT number?

WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC's USDOT number is 2044644, and its motor carrier number is MC-21244.

Is WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC authorized to operate?

As of Aug 20, 2026, WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC is active in the FMCSA register with common, contract, broker operating authority on file.

What is WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC's safety record?

WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC has a 20.0% vehicle out-of-service rate (national average 22.26%) across 48 roadside inspections, with 0 reportable crashes in the last 24 months, and is not currently rated by FMCSA. Vektor's computed risk score is 94/100 (tier: clear).

How big is WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC's fleet?

WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC operates 31 power units and 30 drivers per its most recent MCS-150 filing.

Where is WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC based?

WESTERN EXPRESS FORWARDING LLC is based in UPPER MARLBORO, MD, with roadside inspections recorded across 10 states.

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