Carrier profile · USDOT 216521 · MC-184625 · Updated Aug 12, 2026

Cim Trucking Inc

DBA SIMS METAL MANAGEMENT

23 power unitsavg 16.1 yrRegional · 3 statesCHICAGO, IL94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-184625 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 2 vehicle and 6 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

6 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 2

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 23-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
23
Inspections · 24 mo
6
Annualized
≈3 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
3.5measure
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.

  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle 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· 51 total · 3 in 24 mo

51
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
23
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262022
20251001
20211001
20181001
20172012
20161001
20141001
20121001
20112002
20093021
20085025
20072002
20064024
20055034
20045015
20031010
20021001
20002022
19992012
19981001
19971011
19961011
19942012
19911011
19903023
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 18, 2026IN02Yes
May 7, 2026IL01Yes
Mar 28, 2025IL00Yes
Mar 25, 2021IL00Yes
Mar 2, 2018IL00Yes
Jul 14, 2017IL00Yes
Mar 13, 2017IN01Yes
Aug 30, 2016IL00Yes
Feb 13, 2014IL00Yes
May 22, 2012IL00Yes
Oct 10, 2011IL00Yes
Jan 31, 2011IL00Yes
Oct 19, 2009IL01No
Jun 26, 2009IL00Yes
Feb 6, 2009WI01No
Sep 9, 2008IL00Yes
Jun 9, 2008IL00Yes
Apr 23, 2008IL01Yes
Apr 14, 2008IL01Yes
Feb 1, 2008IL00Yes
Mar 26, 2007IL00Yes
Mar 12, 2007IL00Yes
Oct 11, 2006IL01Yes
Sep 12, 2006IN00Yes
Apr 26, 2006IL00Yes