Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1874170

IDEALITY INC

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL 81

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 23.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 125 vehicle and 179 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

27.3% · 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 2.6 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
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 89-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
89
Inspections · 24 mo
179
Annualized
≈90 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

45%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
44%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
63%
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 Driving57 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance52 · 4 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance30 · 5 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance25 · 10 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance24 · 13 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 11 OOS
  • 177.823 Other violationOther15 · 10 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance15 · 3 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance14
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance10

ELD & hours-of-service

24 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 01/20/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

6ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
8False logs
2Drove over hours

2 ELD violations in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 49 total · 10 in 24 mo

49
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20256016
20243003
20232112
20225025
20218018
20207016
20195015
20182002
20173013
20163003
20152002
20111001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
02/10/2026VA00Yes
01/03/2026IL00Yes
06/21/2025UT00Yes
05/30/2025PA01Yes
03/27/2025TN00Yes
02/17/2025OK00Yes
01/16/2025MI00Yes
01/15/2025CA00Yes
12/19/2024NC00Yes
11/19/2024TN00Yes
01/07/2024AL00Yes
08/10/2023WV11Yes
07/20/2023OH00Yes
12/04/2022NC01Yes
10/31/2022KY00Yes
05/27/2022CA00Yes
04/19/2022MI00Yes
03/31/2022WI02Yes
10/11/2021IN00Yes
09/21/2021IN00Yes
06/11/2021ND00Yes
05/26/2021IA00Yes
04/28/2021KY00Yes
04/02/2021NC00Yes
03/08/2021KS00Yes