Carrier profile · USDOT 527758 · MC-216048 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Thinnes Transport Inc

22 power unitsLocal · 1 statesLAKE IN THE HILLS, IL50/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-216048 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksthinnestransport.comFMCSA SAFER

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

Vehicle OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 1 vehicle and 2 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

No roadside inspections on the FMCSA record in this window

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
≈0.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 22-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
22
Inspections · 24 mo
2
Annualized
≈1 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

8%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
1measure
SMS · 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.

  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle 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· 15 total · 0 in 24 mo

15
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20241011
20222012
20211010
20191001
20181011
20172002
20161011
20151001
20081001
20071001
20042002
20001011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 31, 2024IL01Yes
Nov 16, 2022IL01Yes
Nov 11, 2022IL00Yes
Apr 1, 2021IL01No
Mar 19, 2019IL00Yes
Mar 7, 2018WI01Yes
Jul 26, 2017IL00Yes
May 26, 2017IL00Yes
Feb 29, 2016IL01Yes
Sep 16, 2015IL00Yes
Jan 30, 2008IL00Yes
Jan 17, 2007IL00Yes
Sep 3, 2004IL00Yes
Jan 15, 2004IL00Yes
Oct 26, 2000IL03Yes