Carrier profile · USDOT 2184122 · MC-772274 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

MAX CARRIERS INC

120 power unitsavg 4.3 yrNational · 39 statesSUMMIT, IL94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-772274 ACTIVE
Verified linksmaxcarriers.usFMCSA 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 15.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 246 vehicle and 558 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.4% · 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 9.7 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

546 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '26 · 34

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈2.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
120
Inspections · 24 mo
560
Annualized
≈280 / yr
Coverage
≈2.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

84%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
91%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
64%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
26%
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 Driving140 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance81 · 11 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance36 · 31 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance22 · 6 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance16 · 7 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance10 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness6 · 6 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

117 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 4, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

24ELD device issues
4No log / no ELD
70False logs
9Drove over hours

Trending worse — 83% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 27 total · 8 in 24 mo

27
Total crashes
8
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264004
20254024
20241001
20234024
20224004
20211001
20201001
20193023
20172002
20153013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 20, 2026WA00Yes
Mar 1, 2026OK00Yes
Jan 30, 2026OH00Yes
Jan 17, 2026CO00Yes
Dec 7, 2025WI00Yes
Aug 31, 2025TX00Yes
Aug 14, 2025CA01Yes
Jan 12, 2025NV01Yes
Jun 20, 2024AR00Yes
Oct 2, 2023TN00Yes
Jul 27, 2023AZ00Yes
Jul 3, 2023CA01Yes
May 3, 2023AR01Yes
Sep 14, 2022MT00Yes
Jul 23, 2022AZ00Yes
Apr 27, 2022WY00Yes
Feb 19, 2022MI00Yes
Nov 17, 2021IA00Yes
Jun 22, 2020IN00Yes
Nov 6, 2019WA00Yes
Apr 27, 2019IL01Yes
Apr 10, 2019ID01Yes
Oct 4, 2017PA00Yes
Oct 4, 2017PA00Yes
Aug 10, 2015WI00Yes