AMERICARGO TRANS LLC
USDOT 2790354MC-Docket MC930644ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL
Review before tenderingHazmat-authorized55 power units
AMERICARGO TRANS LLC (USDOT 2790354) in ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL — has findings to review before tendering. FMCSA authority, fleet size, BASIC safety measures, crash and inspection history.
- Has active operating authority that's tenderable today (common or contract).
- No pending authority revocation.
- Not under an uncleared federal out-of-service or safety action.
- BIPD on file: $1,000,000.
- No cargo insurance on file. Required for many shipper contracts.
- No history of insurance lapses.
- Current BIPD policy (GREAT WEST CASUALTY CO.) was filed 27 day(s) after the last involuntary revocation (2025-06-04) — a refile-to-reinstate pattern worth a closer look.
- Unrated by FMCSA. Most carriers are unrated — unrated is not the same as unsafe.
- No BASIC alerts in any of the five public SMS categories.
- Driver and vehicle out-of-service rates are at or below the national roadside average.
- 1 preventable crash(es) in the last 24 months; recordable crash rate 0.
- No fatal crashes in the last 24 months.
- No link to a prior revoked authority.
- Authority involuntarily revoked 2 times, most recent 2025-06-04 — recurring instability (typically insurance-lapse / reinstate cycles).
- Crash Indicator and Hazmat Compliance BASICs are statutorily withheld from public SMS under the FAST Act — their absence is not a clean record; use the crash-risk signals above instead. The Hazmat Compliance BASIC is also withheld for this hazmat carrier.
Built from FMCSA's public Safety Management System data — guidance, not legal advice. Verify directly with the carrier and your cargo policy before tendering.
Authority
- Common authority
- Active
- Contract authority
- Not applicable
Safety & BASIC scorecard
BASIC safety measures
Unsafe driving
No alert
measure 2.58
Hours of service
No alert
measure 0.46
Driver fitness
No alert
measure 0
Controlled substance
No alert
measure 0
Vehicle maintenance
No alert
measure 3.64
Under the FAST Act, FMCSA publishes an absolute per-category measure (not a 0–100 percentile) for these five BASICs — the alert flag, not the raw number, is the risk signal. The Crash Indicator and Hazmat Compliance BASICs are statutorily withheld from public view.
Last 24 months
0
Fatalities
8
Injuries
4
Crashes
131
Inspections
19
OOS inspections
23
OOS violations
Insurance
- BIPD on file
- $1,000,000
- Cargo insurance
- No
- Bond on file
- No
Fleet
- Power units
- 55
- Total drivers
- 90
- Years in business
- 11
- Hazmat authority
- Yes
Crash risk
- Preventable crashes (24 mo)
- 1 of 4 total crash(es)
- Recordable crash rate
- 0
- Driver OOS rate
- 0%
- Vehicle OOS rate
- 20.4%
The official Crash Indicator BASIC is withheld from public SMS under the FAST Act — these derived signals stand in for it; their absence is not a clean record.
Compliance & history
- Reincarnation / chameleon
- No prior revoked authority
- Involuntary revocations
- 2 times last 2025-06-04
- Physical address
- No address flags
- Federal OOS / safety action
- None on file
- MCS-150 self-report
- 2026-04-08
- Insurance lapse history
- No lapses on record
- Last compliance review
- None on file
Inspection history (all-time)
230
Inspections
32
OOS inspections
255
Violations
40
OOS violations
5
Post-accident
Record spans 2023-06-20 → 2026-06-11.
Crash history (last 24 months)
2026-02-19
WY
Tow-away
2025-10-18
TX
7 injuredTow-away
2025-09-27
IL
1 injuredTow-away
2025-04-04
IN
Tow-away
2024-06-03
IL
1 fatal3 injuredTow-away
2024-05-30
NM
Tow-away
Violation pattern (all-time, by area)
| Area (49 CFR part) | Violations | Out of service | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
Vehicle parts & maintenance 393
|
129 | 33 | 2026-06-11 |
Unsafe driving 392
|
59 | 0 | 2026-06-10 |
Hours of service 395
|
25 | 0 | 2026-06-05 |
Vehicle inspection & repair 396
|
15 | 7 | 2026-05-13 |
Hazardous materials (HMR) 177
|
11 | 5 | 2026-04-28 |
Hazardous materials (HMR) 172
|
11 | 1 | 2026-06-05 |
Hazardous materials (HMR) 107
|
2 | 0 | 2025-12-16 |
Hazardous materials (HMR) 173
|
2 | 0 | 2024-05-15 |
General safety regulations 390
|
1 | 0 | 2024-03-28 |
Recent violations (last 24 months, worst first)
| Date | Category | Violation | OOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-04 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (Property) - Driving more than 11 hours following 10 consecutive hours off duty during the current 8 consecutive day | — |
| 2026-05-04 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (Property) - Driving beyond the 14 hour after coming on duty following 10 consecutive hours off duty during the curr | — |
| 2026-05-04 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (ELD) - Driver failing to certify the record immediately after the final required entry has been made or corrected f | — |
| 2026-04-28 | Hazardous Materials Compliance | HM (Placarding) - Any placard(s) misrepresent(s) the HM/DG being transported. CVSA Inspection Bulletin 2017-03 - Display | OOS |
| 2026-04-28 | Hazardous Materials Compliance | HM (Placarding) - Failure to provide/affix placards when required. | — |
| 2026-04-28 | Vehicle Maintenance | Emergency Equipment - Fire Extinguishers - unsecured | — |
| 2026-04-10 | Hazardous Materials Compliance | HM (Placarding) - Any of the required placards for a category of material (hazard class or division) are missing. CVSA I | — |
| 2026-04-04 | Unsafe Driving | Improper lane change | — |
| 2026-04-01 | Vehicle Maintenance | Emergency Equipment - Fire Extinguishers - no fire extinguisher present or not properly rated. | — |
| 2026-03-31 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 15 or more miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2026-03-31 | Hazardous Materials Compliance | HM (Placarding) - Failure to securely affix/attach placard(s). | — |
| 2026-03-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Headlamp(s) - Any inoperative | — |
| 2026-03-24 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Failed to obey a traffic control device - Permanent or Temporary - e.g. safety official signal sign l | — |
| 2026-03-16 | Unsafe Driving | Unlawfully parking and/or leaving vehicle in the roadway | — |
| 2026-02-11 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Turn signal - Any inoperative on the rearmost vehicle. | OOS |
| 2026-02-11 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Turn signal -Any inoperative on a unit that is not the rearmost unit | — |
| 2026-02-11 | Vehicle Maintenance | Fuel - Dripping leak. | OOS |
| 2026-02-11 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake - Audible air leak from a brake chamber | — |
| 2026-02-11 | Vehicle Maintenance | Drum Brake - Inoperative other than a steering axle | — |
| 2026-02-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Front - Turn signal - inoperative | — |
| 2026-02-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Hazard warning signal(s) inoperative | — |
| 2026-02-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - ABS malfunction lamp defective on trailers manufactured on or after March 1 1998 | — |
| 2026-02-02 | Vehicle Maintenance | Emergency Equipment - Fire Extinguishers - not readily accessible or filled | — |
| 2026-01-26 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Failure to maintain lane | — |
| 2026-01-22 | Vehicle Maintenance | Wheel/Rim - Any wheel fasteners loose/missing/ineffective/broken. | — |
| 2026-01-22 | Vehicle Maintenance | Emergency Equipment - Fire Extinguishers - no fire extinguisher present or not properly rated. | — |
| 2026-01-07 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS - False record of duty status driver improper use of Personal Conveyance - Not OOS | — |
| 2026-01-07 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lubrication - Oil or grease leak | — |
| 2026-01-06 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 15 or more miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2025-12-30 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (Property) - No driver may make a false report in connection with a duty status. Explain | — |
| 2025-12-30 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 6-10 miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2025-12-30 | Vehicle Maintenance | Emergency Equipment - Stopped vehicle warning devices missing or improper | — |
| 2025-12-23 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Out of Adjustment - Roto Clamp (Short & Long) DD-3 or Bolt | — |
| 2025-12-23 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - CMV manufactured on or after 10/20/1994 has an automatic airbrake adjustment system that fails to compensate | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Fails air loss rate test | OOS |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Audible air leak at a proper connection | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Out of Adjustment - Roto Clamp (Short & Long) DD-3 or Bolt | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - CMV manufactured on or after 10/20/1994 has an automatic airbrake adjustment system that fails to compensate | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - ABS malfunction lamp defective on trailers manufactured on or after March 1 1998 | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Audible air leak at a proper connection | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake Out of Adjustment - Roto Clamp (Short & Long) DD-3 or Bolt | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - CMV manufactured on or after 10/20/1994 has an automatic airbrake adjustment system that fails to compensate | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Emergency Equipment - Stopped vehicle warning devices missing or improper | — |
| 2025-12-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Brake - Defective brake(s) are equal to or greater than 20% of the service brakes on the vehicle/combination | OOS |
| 2025-12-06 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 6-10 miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2025-11-13 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Headlamp(s) - Any inoperative | — |
| 2025-11-05 | Vehicle Maintenance | Tires - All others leaking or inflation less than 50% of the maximum inflation pressure on tire not equipped with ATIS | OOS |
| 2025-11-05 | Vehicle Maintenance | Drum Brake - Contaminated friction surface | — |
| 2025-11-04 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (ELD) - Driver failed to note the malfunction of the ELD and provide written notice of the malfunction to the motor | — |
| 2025-11-04 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - ABS malfunction lamp defective on trailers manufactured on or after March 1 1998 | — |
Recent inspections (with violations, newest first)
Showing the 25 most-recent inspections that had violations. Clean inspections aren't listed here — they're counted in the all-time inspection totals above.
2026-06-11 1 violHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55D2-B | — | — |
2026-06-10 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLLR | — | — |
2026-06-05 3 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLS3 | — | — |
| Hazardous materials (HMR) 172 | 202C | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 15I5III | — | — |
2026-06-02 1 violHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LIL | — | — |
2026-06-01 2 violsHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 100C-C | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45D-B | — | — |
2026-05-29 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLEQP | — | — |
2026-05-26 2 violsHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47E | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 53B-B | — | — |
2026-05-21 2 viols· 2 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75A3-TAOL | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45B2PC | OOS | — |
2026-05-13 3 viols· 2 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 47A-BCFSAD-SA | OOS | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5B-HWSL | OOS | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLTR | — | — |
2026-05-06 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5B-HWSL | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5B-HWSL | — | — |
2026-05-04 3 violsHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 3A2-HOSPD | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 30B2-ELDDFC24 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 3A1-HOSPD | — | — |
2026-04-28 3 viols· 1 OOSHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazardous materials (HMR) 172 | 506A-HMPMC | — | — |
| Hazardous materials (HMR) 177 | 823A-HMPMCNP | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 95A4-EEUS | — | — |
2026-04-10 1 violHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hazardous materials (HMR) 177 | 823A-HMPMCNP-L6-1 | — | — |
2026-04-04 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2LC | — | — |
2026-04-03 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLEWA3 | — | — |
2026-04-03 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLSR | — | — |
2026-04-01 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 95A1 | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLED | — | — |
2026-03-31 2 violsHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLS4 | — | — |
| Hazardous materials (HMR) 172 | 516C1-HMPMC | — | — |
2026-03-27 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LHLI | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 23-LEU | OOS | Not Guilty/Dismissed |
2026-03-24 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLTCD | — | — |
2026-03-16 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2PK | — | — |
2026-02-19 4 violsPost-accidentHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 86A1-RIG | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 201A-FRMC | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75A3-TAOL | OOS | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 75A3-TAOL | OOS | — |
2026-02-11 5 viols· 2 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 3A1-F | OOS | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 3A1-BALAC | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 48A-BIBD | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LTSIR | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LTSI | OOS | — |
2026-02-02 4 violsHazmat
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LFTSI | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LHWS | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55E-B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 95A4-EENA | — | — |
2026-01-26 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLML | — | — |
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