Carrier profile · USDOT 2913704 · MC-982048 · Updated Aug 7, 2026

Americars Transportation Inc

65 power unitsavg 3.3 yrNational · 42 statesAURORA, IL87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-982048 ACTIVE
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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 27.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 104 vehicle and 245 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.9% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 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

242 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '26 · 21

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
≈1.9 / 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
65
Inspections · 24 mo
245
Annualized
≈123 / yr
Coverage
≈1.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

79%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
61%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
42%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
42%
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 Driving120 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance21 · 19 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance17 · 7 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance14 · 4 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance10 · 3 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance6 · 3 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving6 · 5 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

36 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 3, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

20ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
4False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 70% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 10 total · 3 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261010
20252002
20244013
20231011
20201001
20171001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 2, 2026IL01No
Aug 4, 2025CO00Yes
Apr 4, 2025AL00Yes
Jun 29, 2024CA00Yes
May 30, 2024GA01No
Apr 28, 2024AZ00Yes
Feb 2, 2024TX00Yes
Oct 10, 2023AL01Yes
Feb 13, 2020CO00Yes
Dec 22, 2017OH00Yes