Carrier profile · USDOT 293059 · MC-193846 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

ESSENDANT CO

DBA ESSENDANT

126 power unitsMulti-region · 12 statesDEERFIELD, IL88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-193846 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 7.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 38 vehicle and 73 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 1.8 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

70 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 10

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
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 126-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
126
Inspections · 24 mo
73
Annualized
≈37 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

4%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
14%
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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 125 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 114 total · 2 in 24 mo

114
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
7
Fatal
43
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20243113
20234023
20227137
20212012
20201001
20194004
20183013
20174024
20166016
20154034
20143023
20132002
20113003
20102012
20094124
20083013
20074023
20064214
20055015
20046046
20039148
20023022
20015105
20001001
19991001
19984014
19974023
19966026
19954024
19941011
19921011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 2, 2025PA00Yes
Sep 11, 2024IN01Yes
Aug 1, 2024CA10Yes
Jul 22, 2024KY00Yes
Dec 19, 2023TX01No
Oct 26, 2023NJ00Yes
Oct 19, 2023TX01Yes
Feb 20, 2023TX00Yes
Dec 13, 2022CA01Yes
Nov 16, 2022PA00Yes
Oct 19, 2022IL00Yes
Oct 10, 2022GA00Yes
Jul 21, 2022GA01Yes
Jun 7, 2022GA11Yes
Apr 18, 2022AL00Yes
Aug 23, 2021IN02Yes
Mar 15, 2021IA00Yes
Mar 11, 2020IL00Yes
Dec 16, 2019IL00Yes
Nov 22, 2019IL00Yes
Sep 26, 2019CA00Yes
May 14, 2019PA00Yes
Sep 21, 2018WV00Yes
Aug 21, 2018IL01Yes
Jan 15, 2018IL00Yes