Carrier profile · USDOT 2120601 · MC-739086 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Stellar Carriers Inc

97 power unitsavg 2.3 yrNational · 36 statesROLLING MEADOWS, IL94/100
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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 13.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 100 vehicle and 207 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

7.7% · 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

204 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '25 · 18

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
≈1.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 97-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
97
Inspections · 24 mo
207
Annualized
≈104 / yr
Coverage
≈1.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

53%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
9%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
11%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
16%
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 Driving30 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 10 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 4 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

8 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 12, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

7ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 11 total · 4 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20252011
20241011
20234004
20221001
20211001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 16, 2026IL00Yes
Feb 28, 2026IN01Yes
Nov 24, 2025PA00Yes
Jun 19, 2025NC01No
May 2, 2024OH01Yes
Nov 29, 2023TX00Yes
Oct 23, 2023MD00Yes
Mar 3, 2023OH00Yes
Feb 6, 2023TN00Yes
Aug 8, 2022PA00Yes
Oct 20, 2021IL00Yes