Carrier profile · USDOT 1223016 · MC-484206 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Chicago Freight Inc

25 power unitsavg 12.6 yrMulti-region · 10 statesCAROL STREAM, IL50/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-484206 INACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linkschifreight.comFMCSA 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 52.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 13.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 23 vehicle and 37 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

58.3% · 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 32.9 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

37 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 5

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 25-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
25
Inspections · 24 mo
37
Annualized
≈19 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

52%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
88%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
83%
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 Driving23 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance18 · 5 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance13 · 3 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

32 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 20, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

17ELD device issues
8No log / no ELD
4False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 94% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 15 total · 2 in 24 mo

15
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20243013
20222012
20202002
20191001
20171011
20162012
20151010
20132012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 2, 2026IL00Yes
Dec 5, 2024MI00Yes
Jan 30, 2024IL01Yes
Jan 16, 2024MI00Yes
Jun 4, 2022IL01Yes
Mar 23, 2022IL00Yes
May 22, 2020IL00Yes
Jan 8, 2020IL00Yes
Jan 17, 2019IL00Yes
Jun 15, 2017IL01Yes
Mar 8, 2016IN01Yes
Mar 2, 2016IN00Yes
Dec 4, 2015IL04No
Aug 28, 2013IL02Yes
May 10, 2013IL00Yes