Carrier profile · USDOT 970673 · MC-412559 · Updated Aug 20, 2026

Reliable Express LLC

3 power unitsavg 9.8 yrRegional · 4 statesEDGEWOOD, WA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-412559 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 16.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 10.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 6 vehicle and 10 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 16.7 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

10 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '26 · 3

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
≈1.7 / 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
3
Inspections · 24 mo
10
Annualized
≈5 / yr
Coverage
≈1.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

15%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
49%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
16%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
24%
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 Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Feb 17, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 10 total · 2 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252012
20211001
20131011
20111011
20102012
20092012
20061001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 31, 2025CA00Yes
May 23, 2025CA01Yes
May 24, 2021OR00Yes
Aug 8, 2013CA02Yes
Jan 20, 2011CA02Yes
Dec 9, 2010OR00Yes
Oct 9, 2010OH01Yes
Aug 12, 2009CA01Yes
Apr 28, 2009OR00Yes
Oct 17, 2006CA00Yes