Carrier profile · USDOT 782649 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Meade Electric Company Inc

1,576 power unitsavg 8.1 yrRegional · 4 statesWILLOW BROOK, IL75/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linksmeade100.comFMCSA 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 24.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 33 vehicle and 54 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

37.5% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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

51 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 6

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 1,576-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
1,576
Inspections · 24 mo
54
Annualized
≈27 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

2%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
79%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
62%
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 Driving60 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance16 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 9 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 7 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness5 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness4 · 3 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Aug 27, 2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 129 total · 8 in 24 mo

129
Total crashes
8
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
50
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20254033
2024110711
20236035
20229049
2021120211
20209069
2019110110
2018131312
2017130613
20167017
20156016
20146035
20137047
20114034
20102002
20091001
20084014
20051011
20042012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 16, 2026IL00Yes
Dec 1, 2025IN01Yes
Jul 31, 2025IL01Yes
Jul 23, 2025IL01No
Mar 6, 2025WI00Yes
Nov 1, 2024WI00Yes
Oct 17, 2024IN01Yes
Sep 6, 2024WI01Yes
Jun 25, 2024IL01Yes
May 29, 2024WI00Yes
May 20, 2024IL01Yes
Apr 10, 2024IL01Yes
Apr 10, 2024WI01Yes
Feb 28, 2024IL00Yes
Feb 16, 2024IL01Yes
Jan 11, 2024WI00Yes
Sep 1, 2023IL00Yes
Aug 23, 2023IL02Yes
Aug 17, 2023IL00Yes
Aug 4, 2023IL01No
Jul 5, 2023IN00Yes
Mar 24, 2023IL02Yes
Dec 13, 2022IL01Yes
Dec 7, 2022WI01Yes
Oct 6, 2022IL00Yes