Carrier profile · USDOT 2201774 · MC-764018 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

MIDWEST FREIGHT EXPRESS INC

75 power unitsavg 8 yrNational · 23 statesSOUTH HOLLAND, IL88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-764018 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 14.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 86 vehicle and 183 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 8.1 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

178 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 13

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 75-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
75
Inspections · 24 mo
183
Annualized
≈92 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

88%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
72%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
21%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
53%
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 Driving63 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance22 · 4 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance20 · 10 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance13 · 3 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

36 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 29, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

24ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
4False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 92% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 34 total · 4 in 24 mo

34
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252012
20241001
20233003
20223013
20214024
20204124
20194024
20181001
20176026
20165015
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 26, 2026MI00Yes
Dec 13, 2025TX01Yes
May 15, 2025VA00Yes
Dec 10, 2024TN00Yes
Sep 6, 2023MI00Yes
Sep 2, 2023TN00Yes
Mar 9, 2023OH00Yes
Dec 23, 2022MI01Yes
Jun 7, 2022MI00Yes
May 9, 2022MI00Yes
Sep 12, 2021IL01Yes
Jun 29, 2021GA00Yes
May 28, 2021MS01Yes
Mar 8, 2021WV00Yes
Nov 18, 2020IN11Yes
Nov 4, 2020IN01Yes
Oct 2, 2020IN00Yes
Jul 30, 2020IN00Yes
Dec 19, 2019KY00Yes
Oct 31, 2019OH01Yes
Jul 30, 2019LA01Yes
Apr 11, 2019WI00Yes
Jun 11, 2018SC00Yes
Oct 17, 2017IL01Yes
Sep 12, 2017GA00Yes