Carrier profile · USDOT 2987558 · MC-17389 · Updated Aug 2, 2026

Highway Trucking Services Inc

160 power unitsavg 5.9 yrNational · 43 statesLISLE, IL93/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-17389 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 26.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 109 vehicle and 246 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

39.1% · 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 23.8 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

242 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '25 · 22

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 160-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
160
Inspections · 24 mo
246
Annualized
≈123 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

51%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
73%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
11%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
58%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
67%
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 Driving114 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance29 · 25 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance22 · 2 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance20 · 8 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance15 · 4 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 6 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

31 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 23, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

17ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
13False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 88% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 19 total · 9 in 24 mo

19
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20255025
20244004
20233003
20221001
20203003
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 15, 2026KY00Yes
Jan 23, 2026TX00Yes
Jan 21, 2026WA00Yes
Oct 21, 2025AR01Yes
Aug 9, 2025OK00Yes
Apr 11, 2025GA00Yes
Mar 7, 2025IL00Yes
Jan 5, 2025MO01Yes
Sep 28, 2024OH00Yes
Jul 28, 2024VA00Yes
Jul 6, 2024GA00Yes
Jan 10, 2024PA00Yes
May 9, 2023MO00Yes
Mar 28, 2023MO00Yes
Feb 21, 2023SD00Yes
Nov 13, 2022MT00Yes
Dec 17, 2020NY00Yes
Nov 11, 2020MN00Yes
Jul 16, 2020MI00Yes