Carrier profile · USDOT 2838429 · MC-950175 · Updated Aug 2, 2026

GRASSHOPPER TRANS INC

75 power unitsavg 4.9 yrNational · 38 statesCHICAGO, IL87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-950175 ACTIVEHAZMAT
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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 32.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 53 vehicle and 118 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 24.5 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

112 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '25 · 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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 75-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
75
Inspections · 24 mo
118
Annualized
≈59 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

48%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
61%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
66%
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 Driving42 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance19 · 15 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance16 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 5 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

28 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 27, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

14ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
8False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 79% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 20 total · 4 in 24 mo

20
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262022
20252002
20241001
20231001
20223013
20211001
20205025
20192012
20182012
20161011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 16, 2026GA01Yes
Mar 22, 2026PA04Yes
Jul 7, 2025MN00Yes
May 14, 2025VA00Yes
Jul 1, 2024ND00Yes
Nov 17, 2023NC00Yes
Aug 1, 2022ME01Yes
Jul 24, 2022IA00Yes
Jun 29, 2022TN00Yes
Feb 26, 2021NY00Yes
Nov 23, 2020GA00Yes
Nov 10, 2020WI03Yes
Sep 1, 2020UT00Yes
Jul 24, 2020MA00Yes
May 8, 2020KY01Yes
Oct 21, 2019NY01Yes
May 1, 2019KY00Yes
Nov 15, 2018PA02Yes
Mar 1, 2018MI00Yes
Oct 19, 2016NC01Yes