Carrier profile · USDOT 3162429 · MC-112145 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Expedition Carrier Inc

62 power unitsavg 3.3 yrNational · 37 statesPALOS PARK, IL94/100
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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 11.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 224 vehicle and 291 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

5.8% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

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

288 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 23

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
62
Inspections · 24 mo
291
Annualized
≈146 / yr
Coverage
≈2.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

63%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
56%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
74%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
18%
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 Driving76 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance27 · 4 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance16 · 4 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance16 · 6 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance13 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance12 · 10 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 6 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

49 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 21, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

35ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
10False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 86% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 10 total · 7 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20255044
20221010
20211011
20201001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 23, 2026IN00Yes
Apr 5, 2026IL01Yes
Sep 24, 2025IA01Yes
Apr 10, 2025PA00Yes
Mar 24, 2025WI01Yes
Feb 6, 2025SC01No
Jan 21, 2025MI01Yes
May 11, 2022PA01No
Dec 20, 2021TN01Yes
Jul 7, 2020PA00Yes