Carrier profile · USDOT 2472326 · MC-854955 · Updated Aug 30, 2026

GT Express Inc

1,500 power unitsavg 4.9 yrNational · 47 statesKANKAKEE, IL80/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-854955 ACTIVE

Observed fleet · trailing 24 mo daily

1,500Power units

211 observed · MCS-150

306Trailers seen

Decoded · vPIC

4.9Avg age (yr)

1997–2025 · vPIC

Call dispatch(779) 333-7283 Email dispatchgeorge@gtexpressinc.com

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Load decision · FMCSA snapshot · Aug 30, 2026

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Operating, but with flags a broker should weigh before tendering freight.

Watch · 2

Vehicle out-of-service rate well above average42.4% of vehicle inspections were placed out of service vs the 22.26% national average.Multiple injury crashes35 crashes involving injuries are on record.

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 13 yearsOperating authority has been on file since 2014.

USDOT registration

yr registered

Active for-hire

Insurance (BIPD)$750K in force

FMCSA L&I

Vehicle OOS · 24-mo42.4%

▲ 22.26% nat'l

Crashes · fatal

26 in 24 mo

USDOT registration

yr registered

Active for-hire

Insurance (BIPD)$750K in force

FMCSA L&I

Vehicle OOS · 24-mo42.4%

▲ 22.26% nat'l

Crashes · fatal

26 in 24 mo

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

Fleet typeIdentity

Lessor pool

1,500 power units. Brokers price each fleet type apart.

Fleet age vs peersNewer

4.9 yr

Model years 1997–2025 · peer benchmark unavailable.

Identity stabilityStable

12 yr unchanged

Same registration since 2014 — no chameleon / reincarnation signal.

Safety

599 inspections · 24 mo · vs national benchmarks

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

Vehicle OOS 42.4%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 4.7%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 321 vehicle and 599 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

59.5% · 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 15.6 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

570 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 41

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.

Thin coverage

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.2 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 1,500-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.

Registered power units: 1,500
Inspections · 24 mo: 599
Annualized: ≈300 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.2 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.

392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving537 · 3 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance119 · 38 OOS
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance98 · 91 OOS
395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance88 · 7 OOS
395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance70 · 0 OOS
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance54 · 11 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance48 · 12 OOS
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance31 · 17 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance30 · 0 OOS
393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance30 · 3 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: None

Insurance & bonds

BIPD / liability$750,000 in force

Cargo filing (census)Not recorded per census

Surety bond (census)Not recorded per census

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

$750K in forcegeneral-freight federal minimum

$750K floor

Filed BIPD coverage of $750K 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 ’26 · 8 insurers · 0 lapsesInsurer churn

Canal’16–’23

2014201720202023now

Shorter eras are too brief to label at this scale — all 9 insurers are named in the list below.

BIPD in force — $750,000 · TRISURA SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY · since Apr 2026

All 9 insurer eras · dates, limits, renewals

Insurer	Period	Limit	Renewals
INCLINE AMERICAS INSURANCE COMPANY	Jan 2026 → Apr 2026	$750K	1
PROTECTIVE INSURANCE CO.	Aug 2025 → Dec 2025	$750K	1
TRISURA INSURANCE COMPANY	May 2025 → Aug 2025	$750K	3
OBSIDIAN INSURANCE COMPANY	Sep 2024 → May 2025	$750K	3
ARTISAN & TRUCKERS CASUALTY COMPANY	Aug 2024 → Sep 2024	$750K	2
KNIGHTBROOK INSURANCE COMPANY	Aug 2023 → Aug 2024	$750K	4
CANAL INSURANCE CO.	Aug 2016 → Aug 2023	$750K	20
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESTATE INSURANCE COMPAN	Aug 2015 → Aug 2016	$750K	7
ARTISAN & TRUCKERS CASUALTY COMPANY	Aug 2014 → Aug 2015	$750K	2

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Equipment

VIN-decoded · NHTSA vPIC

Capacity· power units = haulable capacity; trailers are towed

Registered power units (MCS-150): 1,500
Observed power (24 mo): 211
Trailers (towed): 306

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

Fleet age· model years · decoded VINs

4.9 yr

Average age

2025

Newest model yr

1997

Oldest model yr

82.7%

VINs decoded

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Operations & Lanes

Revealed by inspection density across 47 states · 24 mo

Operating footprint· revealed by roadside-inspection geography

Operating radiusNational

revealed

States observed

US states

Inspections · 24 mo

599

OH busiest

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

Home base

KANKAKEE, IL

1781 E RISSER STREET

Top corridor

OH ⇄ IL

OH 48 · MD 41 · AR 41

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: 73 trucks also ran under 28 other carriers

VINs inspected under this carrier were recently inspected under other USDOTs too — the active double-broker / shared-equipment signal: USDOT 2836194 USDOT 4187402 USDOT 2562651 USDOT 3631086 USDOT 3440478 USDOT 2791806 USDOT 2489236 USDOT 3353780Some overlap is legitimate (leased or sold equipment); review alongside the other signals.

Show all-time history (100 trucks · 117 carriers)

Across all inspections on record: USDOT 2791806 USDOT 2836194 USDOT 3487333 USDOT 4033803 USDOT 2324273 USDOT 3409603 USDOT 3487141 USDOT 3528322

Capacity consistency· registered vs roadside-observed power units

Registered (MCS-150)

1,500

Observed (24 mo)

211

Shared w/ other carriers

100

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: 1781 E RISSER STREET, KANKAKEE, IL, 60901
Operation: Interstate

Contact

Phone: (779) 333-7283
Fax: (779) 333-7285
Email: george@gtexpressinc.com
Web domain: gtexpressinc.com

Registration

Officer: Gheorghi Turcanu
USDOT / docket: 2472326 · MC-854955
First registered: Feb 2, 2014
Last MCS-150: Apr 8, 2026 · 35,000,000 mi (2023)
FMCSA safety rating: Not rated
Recordable crash rate: 0.56
D-U-N-S: —

Fleet (self-reported · MCS-150)

1,500

Power units

150

Drivers

150

CDL drivers

35,000,000

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 GT EXPRESS INC.

GT EXPRESS INC (USDOT 2472326) has a Vektor safety score of 80/100 and a Review before loading verdict, from the carrier's FMCSA record refreshed Aug 30, 2026.

The carrier holds active common for-hire operating authority per FMCSA L&I as of Aug 30, 2026.

It has an active BIPD insurance filing with a $750,000 limit in force from TRISURA SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY effective Apr 17, 2026 in FMCSA L&I's current snapshot as of Aug 30, 2026.

Its vehicle out-of-service rate was 42.4% over the last 24 months, versus the 22.26% CVSA national average, from FMCSA roadside-inspection data refreshed Aug 30, 2026.

The carrier received 599 roadside inspections in the last 24 months — 321 vehicle-level and 599 driver-level — across 47 states, according to FMCSA roadside-inspection data refreshed Aug 30, 2026.

The carrier has 26 reportable crashes in the last 24 months and 0 fatal crashes across the full FMCSA crash record available as of Aug 30, 2026.

It reports 1,500 power units and 150 drivers in its most recent MCS-150 filing dated Apr 8, 2026.

It has no FMCSA-assigned safety rating in the federal record refreshed Aug 30, 2026.

Frequently asked

What is GT EXPRESS INC's USDOT number?

GT EXPRESS INC's USDOT number is 2472326, and its motor carrier number is MC-854955.

Is GT EXPRESS INC authorized to operate?

As of Aug 30, 2026, GT EXPRESS INC is active in the FMCSA register with common, contract, broker operating authority on file.

What is GT EXPRESS INC's safety record?

GT EXPRESS INC has a 42.4% vehicle out-of-service rate (national average 22.26%) across 1,003 roadside inspections, with 26 reportable crashes in the last 24 months, and is not currently rated by FMCSA. Vektor's computed risk score is 80/100 (tier: review).

How big is GT EXPRESS INC's fleet?

GT EXPRESS INC operates 1,500 power units and 150 drivers per its most recent MCS-150 filing.

Where is GT EXPRESS INC based?

GT EXPRESS INC is based in KANKAKEE, IL, with roadside inspections recorded across 47 states.

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