Carrier profile · USDOT 1775733 · MC-647941 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Superior Overnight Services Inc

100 power unitsavg 5.7 yrNational · 31 statesELGIN, IL88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-647941 ACTIVERATED 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 12.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 62 vehicle and 141 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.8% · 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 4.1 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

138 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '26 · 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.

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 100-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
100
Inspections · 24 mo
141
Annualized
≈71 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

46%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
26%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.01measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
35%
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 Driving56 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance18 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance13 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance12 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 10 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

12 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Mar 11, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

10ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 70% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 75 total · 5 in 24 mo

75
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
27
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252012
20244034
20233013
20226036
20217027
2020110311
20194024
20186036
2017130213
20167146
20157037
20142002
20131001
20091001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 18, 2026IA00Yes
Dec 15, 2025OH00Yes
Feb 14, 2025PA02Yes
Aug 29, 2024IL01Yes
Aug 15, 2024IL01Yes
Jun 22, 2024NC02Yes
Jan 30, 2024OH00Yes
Oct 22, 2023IN00Yes
Apr 4, 2023PA00Yes
Feb 2, 2023OK01Yes
Dec 15, 2022NY01Yes
Sep 10, 2022NE00Yes
Aug 5, 2022AZ00Yes
Aug 3, 2022OK01Yes
May 31, 2022GA01Yes
May 16, 2022NC00Yes
Oct 19, 2021IN00Yes
Aug 18, 2021OK00Yes
Aug 10, 2021OK00Yes
Jul 14, 2021IN00Yes
Jun 29, 2021NE01Yes
May 16, 2021IL00Yes
May 10, 2021NC03Yes
Dec 12, 2020OH00Yes
Nov 10, 2020IN01Yes