Carrier profile · USDOT 1877329 · MC-655200 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Penmark Transportation Inc

78 power unitsavg 5.1 yrNational · 33 statesROSELLE, IL70/100
CARRIER INACTIVEMC-655200 INACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 21.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 38 vehicle and 106 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 5.2 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

101 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 12

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 78-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
78
Inspections · 24 mo
106
Annualized
≈53 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

68%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
81%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
60%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
48%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
58%
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 Driving128 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance55 · 43 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance37 · 9 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance34 · 9 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance30 · 6 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance25 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance19 · 5 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance10 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

82 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 27, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

35ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
29False logs
10Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 156 total · 9 in 24 mo

156
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
44
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20256036
2024110411
2023220322
20223611034
20214101341
2020170417
2019160414
20184024
20173013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 12, 2025TN00Yes
Jul 9, 2025TX00Yes
Jun 22, 2025WA01Yes
Mar 5, 2025MN00Yes
Feb 26, 2025SC01Yes
Jan 5, 2025FL02Yes
Dec 20, 2024MO01Yes
Oct 31, 2024OR00Yes
Sep 15, 2024MO00Yes
Jul 19, 2024WY03Yes
Apr 6, 2024MO01Yes
Mar 29, 2024NV00Yes
Mar 24, 2024MN00Yes
Mar 14, 2024WY00Yes
Jan 22, 2024MO00Yes
Jan 15, 2024TN00Yes
Jan 5, 2024NM01Yes
Dec 9, 2023ND00Yes
Nov 30, 2023CA00Yes
Nov 4, 2023OR00Yes
Oct 24, 2023WY00Yes
Oct 1, 2023SC00Yes
Sep 28, 2023MO00Yes
Sep 3, 2023AR00Yes
Sep 1, 2023CA00Yes