Carrier profile · USDOT 2372907 · MC-814259 · Updated Jun 24, 2026

Delta Carrier Group Inc

81 power unitsavg 6 yrNational · 38 statesROCKDALE, IL74/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-814259 ACTIVE
Verified linksdeltacarriergroup.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 45.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 90 vehicle and 163 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

37.5% · 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 12.7 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

159 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '26 · 12

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 81-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
81
Inspections · 24 mo
164
Annualized
≈82 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

70%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
50%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
32%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
74%
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 Driving66 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance24 · 18 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance20 · 5 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance17 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance17 · 4 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance11 · 2 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance8 · 3 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving8 · 7 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

27 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 28, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

19ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
2False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 68% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 43 total · 10 in 24 mo

43
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
20
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264134
20254034
20242012
20231011
20222002
20211001
20201001
20191011
20186025
20172022
20168038
20155025
20145025
20131001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 13, 2026GA11Yes
Jun 3, 2026LA04Yes
May 1, 2026IL02Yes
Mar 18, 2026AL00Yes
Nov 5, 2025AL01Yes
Oct 29, 2025IL01Yes
Mar 10, 2025VA00Yes
Jan 3, 2025CA01Yes
Dec 2, 2024OH00Yes
Oct 7, 2024AZ04Yes
Nov 7, 2023NY01Yes
May 31, 2022CT00Yes
Feb 17, 2022KY00Yes
Sep 7, 2021VA00Yes
Feb 27, 2020OH00Yes
Nov 11, 2019IN01Yes
Dec 22, 2018CA00Yes
Dec 15, 2018PA00Yes
Sep 17, 2018IN01Yes
May 18, 2018NC00Yes
Apr 22, 2018MD00Yes
Feb 7, 2018OH01No
Jun 29, 2017IN01Yes
Feb 10, 2017IN01Yes
Nov 11, 2016IN00Yes