Carrier profile · USDOT 3369454 · MC-1117457 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Golden Middle Inc

100 power unitsavg 3.9 yrNational · 35 statesSCHAUMBURG, IL69/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-1117457 INACTIVE
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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 27.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 51 vehicle and 101 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

40.0% · 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 14.9 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

97 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 15

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 100-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
100
Inspections · 24 mo
102
Annualized
≈51 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

35%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
80%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
51%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
61%
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 Driving95 · 5 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance27 · 6 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance27 · 4 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance24 · 23 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance19 · 4 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 9 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

46 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 23, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

18ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
14False logs
7Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 15 total · 2 in 24 mo

15
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
4
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252012
20246016
20235025
20222002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 23, 2025MA02Yes
Mar 7, 2025NJ00Yes
Jul 31, 2024GA00Yes
Jul 17, 2024NV00Yes
Jun 17, 2024MA00Yes
Jun 5, 2024IL01Yes
Mar 7, 2024OK00Yes
Jan 28, 2024OH00Yes
Dec 17, 2023TN04Yes
Mar 11, 2023CO01Yes
Feb 23, 2023WI00Yes
Feb 20, 2023CO00Yes
Jan 5, 2023MN00Yes
Oct 2, 2022PA00Yes
Sep 23, 2022KY00Yes