TLM Express Truck Accident — May 2026, TX
TLM Express has 1 federal crash on record — most recent: May 2026 (TX).
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Crashes on record
May 2026
Most recent crash
1
Fatal crashes
$750K
Liability insurance on file
TLM EXPRESS INC · USDOT 1203369 · Clovis, NM · 55 power units · mid fleet
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What crashes are on TLM Express's federal record?
1 of the crashes on this record was fatal.
A May 21, 2026 crash in TX is on file — recorded as fatal, with 1 death, and a vehicle towed disabled from the scene.
Why these columns: a crash enters the federal file only when it involved a death, an injury taken for immediate medical care, or a vehicle towed disabled from the scene — the federal reportable-crash threshold. Property-damage-only crashes below that threshold are not in this record.
Who insures TLM Express trucks — and for how much?
Liability insurance is the coverage carriers file with federal regulators (the federal category is called "BIPD" — Bodily Injury & Property Damage). The figure below is this carrier's filed limit — a compliance floor, not necessarily the full coverage available.
Filed Liability Limit
$750K
Primary Insurer
Sentry Select Insurance Company
ACTIVE FILINGS (ALL TYPES): 1 | SELF-INSURED: No
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How often do TLM Express trucks fail safety inspections?
Vehicle Out-of-Service (OOS) Rate
CARRIER: 3.5% | NATL AVG: 14.5%
Driver Out-of-Service (OOS) Rate
CARRIER: 0.0% | NATL AVG: 6.2%
At or below the national average (▸ marker).
What these records mean if you were injured
Fleet-wide averages don't decide individual cases. Liability turns on what this specific driver, dispatcher, and truck's logs show in the hours before your crash.
Across 31 federal inspections in the past two years, TLM Express's vehicle out-of-service rate (3.5%) places below the median of comparable high-inspection-volume carriers with crash records.
$750K in liability coverage is on file — at the $750K federal floor for general freight.
In Texas, a personal-injury lawsuit must generally be filed within 2 years of the crash.
For the most recent crash on this record, that general window runs to about May 2028.
For a death, the deadline generally runs from the date of death, not the crash date — FMCSA counts a death within 30 days of the crash as a crash fatality.
There are exceptions — which ones apply to your case is a lawyer's job.
What to do if you were injured in a TLM Express crash
Federal records document crashes; they don't assign fault — fault is established by investigation, police reports, and litigation.
The carrier named here may not be the only responsible party — brokers, shippers, and manufacturers sit outside this record, each on their own clock.
Federal driver-log retention for this crash: expires Nov 2026.
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USDOT 1203369 · Tlm Express Inc
FMCSA snapshot 2026-05-01 · metrics recomputed 2026-07-21
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Step 1 of 3 · What happened
Institutional appendix · technical record & compliance
Federal violation record — 7 violations recorded in the trailing 24-month inspection window. Source: FMCSA SMS BASIC.
Night-driving crash pattern
Night-driving analysis: insufficient crash sample (N < 5).
Pattern detection requires at least 5 documented crashes in the past 5-year window.
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Verified federal extraction · 2026-07-21 16:19:43 UTC