Carrier profile · USDOT 1981739 · MC-701921 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Quality Refrigerated Transport Inc

92 power unitsavg 9.2 yrNational · 36 statesPROSPECT HEIGHTS, IL88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-701921 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 17.9%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 — 56 vehicle and 133 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

14.3% · 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 5.5 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

128 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '24 · 11

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 92-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
92
Inspections · 24 mo
133
Annualized
≈67 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

56%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
77%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
54%
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 Driving108 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance16 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 9 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance7 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

33 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 24, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

13ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
5False logs
7Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 40 total · 8 in 24 mo

40
Total crashes
8
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
7
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20256016
20244004
20232002
20226026
20212112
20202002
20196026
20184014
20175105
20162002
20151001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 31, 2025IN00Yes
Dec 13, 2025IL00Yes
Nov 19, 2025IL00Yes
Oct 22, 2025WV00Yes
Jun 1, 2025IN01Yes
Jan 14, 2025IN00Yes
Dec 19, 2024IL00Yes
Sep 5, 2024PA00Yes
Apr 1, 2024FL00Yes
Jan 18, 2024GA00Yes
Oct 20, 2023KY00Yes
May 22, 2023PA00Yes
Nov 18, 2022GA01Yes
Nov 18, 2022WI00Yes
Jun 14, 2022MO00Yes
Apr 8, 2022MT02Yes
Mar 28, 2022IL00Yes
Mar 22, 2022MI00Yes
Nov 8, 2021CA01Yes
May 8, 2021OH10Yes
Aug 25, 2020PA00Yes
Jul 16, 2020PA00Yes
Dec 23, 2019IL05Yes
Dec 6, 2019OH01Yes
Sep 27, 2019OR00Yes