Carrier profile · USDOT 1761786 · MC-643998 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

United Transport Inc

83 power unitsavg 5.7 yrNational · 27 statesHAMMOND, IN74/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-643998 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 36.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 87 vehicle and 241 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

28.6% · 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 6.4 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

239 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 15

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
≈1.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 83-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
83
Inspections · 24 mo
241
Annualized
≈121 / yr
Coverage
≈1.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

95%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
41%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
51%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
12%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
71%
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 Driving140 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance49 · 43 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance44 · 11 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance21 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance16 · 4 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance10 · 1 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 5 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

47 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 1, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

34ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
5False logs
5Drove over hours

Trending worse — 79% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 55 total · 5 in 24 mo

55
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
15
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261011
20254044
20245024
20235005
20228008
20213013
20205015
20193113
20183113
20176136
20161001
20155005
20141011
20131001
20121001
20102002
20091001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 17, 2026OK01Yes
Jun 17, 2025GA01Yes
Jun 11, 2025TN01Yes
Feb 26, 2025MI01Yes
Jan 6, 2025TN01Yes
Jul 31, 2024OK01Yes
Mar 21, 2024WI00Yes
Mar 19, 2024NC01No
Feb 1, 2024NC00Yes
Jan 22, 2024IL00Yes
Dec 13, 2023MO00Yes
Nov 1, 2023IN00Yes
Aug 28, 2023GA00Yes
Jul 13, 2023IN00Yes
Mar 11, 2023FL00Yes
Dec 17, 2022IL00Yes
Dec 7, 2022WV00Yes
Nov 16, 2022OH00Yes
Nov 10, 2022LA00Yes
May 10, 2022IL00Yes
Jan 26, 2022IL00Yes
Jan 18, 2022VA00Yes
Jan 5, 2022MI00Yes
Dec 15, 2021MI00Yes
Jun 25, 2021IN01Yes