Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 4125872

FIRST FREIGHT LLC

HICKORY HILLS, IL 100

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 15.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 64 vehicle and 102 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

9.5% · 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 8.6 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 40-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
40
Inspections · 24 mo
102
Annualized
≈51 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

67%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
6%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
51%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
79%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
30%
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 Driving16
  • 393.201 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance9
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 4 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance5
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance3
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving3
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 07/22/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 4 total · 4 in 24 mo

4
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
0
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20251001
20241001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/06/2026MD00Yes
03/22/2026TN00Yes
11/27/2025TX00Yes
11/14/2024OK00Yes