Carrier profile · USDOT 2839886 · MC-950996 · Updated Jul 9, 2026

Carat Expedited Inc

27 power unitsavg 8.1 yrNational · 18 statesBURR RIDGE, IL74/100
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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 56.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 23 vehicle and 55 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

100.0% · 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 18.3 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

50 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 8

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 27-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
27
Inspections · 24 mo
55
Annualized
≈28 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

68%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
93%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
95%
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 Driving70 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance38 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance32 · 6 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance17 · 12 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 5 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance8 · 2 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 6 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

57 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 12, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

16ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
23False logs
6Drove over hours

Trending worse — 56% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 18 total · 2 in 24 mo

18
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20251011
20243013
20233003
20222022
20212002
20203023
20191011
20181001
20171001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 26, 2026FL01Yes
Nov 15, 2025NC01Yes
Jun 10, 2024GA00Yes
Feb 28, 2024GA01Yes
Feb 16, 2024MO00Yes
Jun 25, 2023WV00Yes
Mar 22, 2023MD00Yes
Mar 2, 2023NC00Yes
Jun 14, 2022AL01Yes
Jan 23, 2022OH01Yes
Dec 6, 2021MI00Yes
Jan 13, 2021AR00Yes
Aug 29, 2020OH00Yes
Jun 18, 2020NC02Yes
May 20, 2020NC01Yes
Nov 30, 2019TN03Yes
May 4, 2018TX00Yes
Feb 10, 2017WY00Yes