Carrier profile · USDOT 1248899 · Updated Jun 19, 2026

Independent Recycling Services Inc

70 power unitsLocal · 1 statesCHICAGO, IL94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linksrecyclingit.comLinkedInFMCSA SAFER

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 —24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 0 vehicle and 6 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

5 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Aug '25 · 2

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 70-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
70
Inspections · 24 mo
6
Annualized
≈3 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
clean · per-BASIC

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 Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 9 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 30 total · 1 in 24 mo

30
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
14
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20243012
20231001
20212012
20202002
20193012
20183022
20173023
20161011
20143013
20133012
20102012
20091011
20071011
20051011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 27, 2026IL00Yes
Apr 12, 2024IL01No
Apr 1, 2024IL00Yes
Mar 4, 2024IL00Yes
Jul 8, 2023IL00Yes
Sep 11, 2021IL00Yes
Jan 30, 2021IL01Yes
Oct 26, 2020IL00Yes
Sep 9, 2020IL00Yes
Jul 31, 2019IL00Yes
Jun 27, 2019IL00Yes
Jan 2, 2019IL01No
Dec 13, 2018IL02Yes
Oct 1, 2018IL00Yes
Sep 11, 2018IL01No
Oct 20, 2017IL01Yes
Sep 1, 2017IL00Yes
Apr 26, 2017IL010Yes
Mar 26, 2016IL02Yes
Dec 12, 2014IL01Yes
Nov 22, 2014IL00Yes
May 6, 2014IL00Yes
Nov 18, 2013IL01No
Oct 29, 2013IL00Yes
Aug 25, 2013IL00Yes