Carrier profile · USDOT 453659 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

A MICHAEL OWENS INC

DBA OWENS TRANSPORT SERVICE

2 power unitsavg 6.5 yrLocal · 1 statesBLOOMINGTON, IL50/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNHAZMAT
Verified linksFMCSA SAFER

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 0.0%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 — 3 vehicle and 4 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. More resolved windows are needed to establish a trend. 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

4 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 1

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 2-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
2
Inspections · 24 mo
4
Annualized
≈2 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

47%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
1.2measure
SMS · per-BASIC

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.

  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 8 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 10 total · 0 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20171011
20151001
20111001
20061011
20051011
20021101
20001001
19991011
19982022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 22, 2017IL01Yes
Apr 13, 2015IL00Yes
Jun 12, 2011IL00Yes
Dec 20, 2006IL01Yes
Jun 11, 2005IL01Yes
Jan 24, 2002IL10Yes
Apr 20, 2000IL00Yes
Jan 18, 1999IL01Yes
Dec 31, 1998IL04Yes
Oct 13, 1998IL01Yes