Carrier profile · USDOT 2160199 · MC-750770 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

DARS LOGISTICS CORP

30 power unitsavg 5.8 yrMulti-region · 15 statesMELROSE PARK, IL68/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-750770 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 41.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 24 vehicle and 72 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 26.2 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

71 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 6

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
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 30-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
30
Inspections · 24 mo
72
Annualized
≈36 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-08-01

91%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
82%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
27%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
70%
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 Driving52 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance16 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 12 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

53 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 26, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

35ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
14False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 66% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 18 total · 4 in 24 mo

18
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20253122
20243023
20231011
20222011
20212002
20201001
20191001
20173003
20161001
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 17, 2025IL00Yes
Jul 10, 2025IL11No
Apr 20, 2025IN01Yes
Sep 24, 2024IL01Yes
Jul 18, 2024IN01Yes
Jan 23, 2024IL00Yes
Aug 25, 2023IN01Yes
Aug 5, 2022MS01No
Feb 3, 2022KY00Yes
Aug 19, 2021PA00Yes
Feb 18, 2021IN00Yes
Apr 1, 2020TX00Yes
Apr 21, 2019MO00Yes
Oct 20, 2017MI00Yes
Aug 3, 2017IL00Yes
Jul 17, 2017MO00Yes
Jun 13, 2016TX00Yes
Aug 27, 2015UT00Yes