Carrier profile · USDOT 3066079 · MC-58149 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Gold US Transportation Inc

75 power unitsavg 4.9 yrNational · 39 statesSUGAR GROVE, IL81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-58149 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 31.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.2%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 58 vehicle and 124 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

36.8% · 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 6.4 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

121 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 8

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 75-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
75
Inspections · 24 mo
124
Annualized
≈62 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

44%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
66%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
67%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
71%
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
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance20 · 15 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance11 · 2 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance8 · 3 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

18 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.

10ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
5False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 60% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 16 total · 5 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20255014
20241001
20233023
20222012
20213012
20202102
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 24, 2025MO00Yes
Mar 19, 2025MA00Yes
Feb 12, 2025IA00Yes
Feb 3, 2025IL01No
Jan 28, 2025WY00Yes
Aug 11, 2024FL00Yes
Dec 31, 2023GA02Yes
Aug 9, 2023ND01Yes
Jan 6, 2023UT00Yes
Nov 28, 2022GA00Yes
Nov 17, 2022OR03Yes
Sep 11, 2021IL01No
Feb 27, 2021PA00Yes
Feb 21, 2021OH00Yes
Oct 12, 2020CO00Yes
Jan 10, 2020TX10Yes