Carrier profile · USDOT 602357 · MC-290215 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Sun Steel Express Inc

25 power unitsLocal · 1 statesBURNS HARBOR, IN50/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-290215 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY

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-mo cumulative

050%

Driver OOS 66.7%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 0 vehicle and 3 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

3 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '25 · 2

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

≈0.1 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 25-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: 25
Inspections · 24 mo: 3
Annualized: ≈2 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

28%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

92%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

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 Driving6 · 0 OOS
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 4 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 31 total · 0 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2024	1	0	0	1
2020	1	0	0	1
2018	1	1	1	1
2016	1	0	0	1
2011	2	0	0	2
2010	1	0	0	1
2008	1	0	0	1
2007	2	0	1	2
2006	1	0	0	1
2005	2	0	2	2
2004	4	0	3	3
2003	5	0	2	5
2002	2	1	0	2
2001	2	0	0	2
2000	3	0	3	3
1999	1	0	1	1
1998	1	0	1	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Aug 5, 2024	IN	0	0	Yes
Mar 4, 2020	IN	0	0	Yes
Feb 7, 2018	IN	1	1	Yes
Aug 2, 2016	IN	0	0	Yes
Jun 3, 2011	OH	0	0	Yes
Apr 20, 2011	IN	0	0	Yes
May 13, 2010	IN	0	0	Yes
Dec 23, 2008	IN	0	0	Yes
Nov 6, 2007	IL	0	1	Yes
Aug 6, 2007	IN	0	0	Yes
Apr 7, 2006	IL	0	0	Yes
Sep 1, 2005	IN	0	1	Yes
Jan 28, 2005	IN	0	1	Yes
Jul 12, 2004	IN	0	1	Yes
Jun 11, 2004	IN	0	2	Yes
Jun 9, 2004	IL	0	0	Yes
Mar 11, 2004	IL	0	1	No
Dec 11, 2003	IN	0	3	Yes
Oct 31, 2003	IN	0	1	Yes
Oct 17, 2003	IL	0	0	Yes
Apr 17, 2003	IL	0	0	Yes
Feb 5, 2003	IL	0	0	Yes
Sep 30, 2002	IN	1	0	Yes
May 31, 2002	IN	0	0	Yes
Oct 22, 2001	IN	0	0	Yes