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NORTH SHORE TRANSIT INC

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Company CheckNORTH SHORE TRANSIT INC · DOT 1257235

DBA: DBA LAKESIDE TRANSPORTATION

2794 NORTHWESTERN, WAUKEGAN, IL, 60087

DOT# 1257235 MC# 496466 Waukegan, Illinois 21 years

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431

Power Units

480

Drivers

Crashes (24-Month)

$8,000,000

Insurance

Conditional

Safety Rating

Inspections

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Public record

5 events tracked · latest Sep 9, 2026 ↓ Show details ↓

Safety & compliance 4

Mar 17, 2026
Crash reported (no fatalities).
Dec 11, 2025
Roadside inspection, 1 out-of-service violation.
Aug 11, 2025
Roadside inspection, 1 out-of-service violation.
Apr 21, 2025
Roadside inspection, 1 out-of-service violation.

Insurance 1

Current
Active insurance on file ($8,000,000).

Public FMCSA record · blue clean · orange change · red risk.

Contact Details

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Physical Address2794 NORTHWESTERN, WAUKEGAN, IL, 60087

Mailing Address2794 NORTHWESTERN, WAUKEGAN, IL, 60087

Operating Authorities

Authority TypeAUTHORIZED FOR HIRE

Carrier OperationA - Interstate

DocketMC496466

CommonActive

ContractNot Active

BrokerNot Active

Operating21 years

All Docket Numbers

MC496466

Cargo Transported

Passengers

Operation Classification

Authorized For Hire Passenger Carrier

SMS BASIC Scores

FMCSA safety categories, last 24 months. Above Cutoff = FMCSA flags a problem · Below cutoff = within limits · Clean = no violations.

Unsafe Driving

measure .06 · 1 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Hours-of-Service Compliance

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Driver Fitness

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Controlled Substances / Alcohol

measure 0 · 0 insp with violations

Clean

Vehicle Maintenance

measure 6 · 1 insp with violations

Below cutoff

Source: FMCSA SMS, updated monthly.

Mileage

Annual Mileage3,286 miles

Mileage Year2024

VMT SourceMCS-150 Form

Drivers

480

Interstate

Intrastate

CDL

480

Total

Interstate >100mi0

Interstate <100mi0

Intrastate >100mi0

Intrastate <100mi0

Safety Summary

Safety RatingConditional

Total Crashes (24-mo)1

Fatal0

Driver OOS0.0% avg 5.5%

Vehicle OOS100.0% avg 20.7%

SmartWay PartnerNo

Last Review03/19/2010

Insurance

Amount$8,000,000

Type91X

VerifiedFMCSA · 07/09/2026

CompanyACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY

Policy #ISAH25553913

Last checked09/09/2026

Quick Facts

StatusActive

TypeCarrier

Fleet431 units

Drivers480

Mileage3,286 mi

Operating21 years

MCS-15008/2025

Safety & Inspection Data

Crash Summary

Total Crashes (24-mo)1

Fatal0

Injury0

Tow-Away1

Safety RatingConditional

Driver Inspections

Total3

Out of Service0

OOS Rate0.0%

National Avg5.5%

Below National Average

Vehicle Inspections

Total3

Out of Service3

OOS Rate100.0%

National Avg20.7%

Above National Average

Last FMCSA Review: 03/19/2010 | Rated: 03/24/2010

Safety Trends by Year

Roadside inspections and crashes on file, year over year. The red portion of each inspection bar is the out-of-service share; ▲/▼ compares to the prior year.

Inspections · red = OOS

2024

0 · 0 OOS -

2025

3 · 3 OOS ▲

2026

0 · 0 OOS ▼

Crashes

2024

1 crash -

2025

0 crashes ▼

2026

1 crash ▲

Based on FMCSA crash and roadside inspection records (rolling 3-year window). The latest year may be partial.

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Live FMCSA roadside inspections through Dec 2025, 3 inspections, 3 resulted in out-of-service (100% OOS rate).

Vehicle Out-of-Service 3 OOS

Live FMCSA roadside inspection records, refreshed monthly.

Crash Records (2)

Full crash history on file (all years), newest first. This list may show more than the headline Crashes figure above, because that figure follows the official FMCSA 24-month SMS window used for the Trust Score, older crashes still appear here for transparency.

Date	Location	State	Fatal	Injuries	Tow	Vehicles	Weather	Road	Light
03/17/2026	LIBERTYVILLE	IL	0	0	1	2	Clear	Dry	Daylight
08/23/2024	LIBERTYVILLE	IL	0	0	1	2	Clear	Dry	Daylight

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

17 roadside violations across 3 inspections, grouped into FMCSA safety-behavior categories. The shaded portion shows how many were serious enough to result in an out-of-service order.

ViolationsOut-of-service

Unsafe Driving 11 violations · 2 OOS

Vehicle Maintenance 4 violations · 1 OOS

Other (General) 2 violations · 0 OOS

Categories follow FMCSR violation parts (Part 393/396 = Vehicle Maintenance, Part 395 = HOS; "Other" = general/administrative parts such as 390). Raw violation counts and out-of-service results, not FMCSA percentile rankings, which are not published for property carriers.

Inspection Records (3)

Date	State	Level	Location	Violations	OOS	Driver Viol	Vehicle Viol	Vehicle OOS	HazMat
12/11/2025	WI	Walk-Around (Level II)	MOUNT PLEASANT WI	10	1	3	7	1	-	▲Detail
08/11/2025	WI	Walk-Around (Level II)	STURTEVANT WI	3	1	0	0	1	-	▲Detail
04/21/2025	WI	Walk-Around (Level II)	MOUNT PLEASANT WI	4	1	0	0	1	-	▲Detail

Safety Performance Percentiles

FMCSA SMS percentile rankings. Higher percentile = worse performance relative to peers.

Total Inspections3

Unsafe Driving 1 viols

Vehicle Maintenance 1 viols

Licensing & Insurance

Form	Type	Insurance Company	Policy	Coverage	Effective	Cancel Date	Method
91X	BIPD/Primary	OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY	MWTB 315886	$5,000,000	10/31/2020	07/01/2021	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	OLD REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY	MWTB 315887	$5,000,000	10/31/2020	10/31/2020	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY	ISA H25157898	$5,000,000	07/01/2018	10/31/2020	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	STARR INDEMNITY & LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY	1000010593	$3,000,000	07/01/2014	07/01/2015	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	STARR INDEMNITY & LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY	1000010112	$3,000,000	07/01/2013	07/01/2014	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY	ISA H08696664	$2,000,000	07/01/2012	07/01/2018	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	STARR INDEMNITY & LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY	SISCSEL01528912	$3,000,000	07/01/2012	07/01/2013	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	STARR INDEMNITY & LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY	SISCSEL01528911	$3,000,000	07/01/2011	07/08/2012	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Excess	EVEREST NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY	71G6000289-101	$3,000,000	03/01/2010	11/04/2011	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Excess	EVEREST NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY	71G6000289-101	$3,000,000	03/01/2010	07/01/2011	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY	ISA H08588934	$2,000,000	03/01/2010	07/01/2012	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY	007004446	$3,000,000	03/01/2009	03/01/2010	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	DISCOVER PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.	D009A00093	$2,000,000	03/01/2009	03/28/2010	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Primary	DISCOVER PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.	D009A00093	$2,000,000	03/01/2009	03/01/2010	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY	007004446	$3,000,000	03/01/2009	03/28/2010	Cancelled
91X	BIPD/Excess	LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY	7022267	$3,000,000	03/01/2008	03/01/2009	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	DISCOVER PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.	D009A00079	$2,000,000	03/01/2008	03/01/2009	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	DISCOVER PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.	D009A00054	$2,000,000	03/01/2007	03/01/2008	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY	7022085	$3,000,000	03/01/2007	03/01/2008	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY	0880426	$3,000,000	03/01/2005	03/01/2007	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	DISCOVER PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.	D002A00245	$1,000,000	03/01/2004	03/01/2004	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY	702 01 93	$3,000,000	03/01/2004	03/01/2004	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Primary	DISCOVER PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE CO.	D002A00245	$2,000,000	03/01/2004	03/01/2007	Replaced
91X	BIPD/Excess	LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY	7020193	$3,000,000	03/01/2004	03/01/2005	Replaced

No active insurance policies.

Docket	Type	Action	Served	Disposition	Disp Date
MC496466	MOTOR PASSENGER COMMON CARRIER	REINSTATED	08/16/2012	-	-
MC496466	COMMON	INVOLUNTARY REVOCATION	03/01/2010	DISCONTINUED REVOCATION	03/12/2010
MC496466	MOTOR PASSENGER COMMON CARRIER	GRANTED	02/16/2005	REVOKED	07/16/2012

No revocation records.

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83/100

Excellent

VERIFIED

Every carrier starts at 100. We subtract points for each missing requirement or risk factor below. Verified means all four core requirements pass.

Score breakdown, from 100 to 83

−12

Starts at 100−17 totalFinal 83

Conditional safety rating−12

Vehicle out-of-service rate above national average−5

Verification, 4 core requirements

Active operating authority

FMCSA shows the USDOT registration and authority are active.

Authorized for hire

Holds active for-hire (common or contract) authority.

Active insurance on file

Insurance coverage and carrier are on file with FMCSA.

Safety rating not Unsatisfactory

Conditional rating (acceptable, but not Unsatisfactory).

What's lowering this score

-12

Conditional safety rating

FMCSA assigned a Conditional safety rating.

-5

Vehicle out-of-service rate above national average

Vehicle OOS 100% vs national avg 20.72%.

Where this company lands, risk scales

Vehicle out-of-service rate−5 of 5

0 pts · low risk−5 pts · high risk

Vehicle OOS 100% vs national avg 20.72%.

How we calculate the Trust Score

Every company starts at 100

We subtract points for each missing requirement or risk factor. Verified means all the core requirements for that company's type pass. Nothing is added back, the score is a deduction model built only on public FMCSA data. No pay-to-play, no opinions.

Requirements differ by company type

Each company is judged fairly on its own FMCSA obligations. Anything that doesn't apply shows as a grey N/A, not required, never a penalty.

Carrier (for-hire)

Operating authority, authorized-for-hire, insurance on file, safety rating.

Broker

Broker authority + $75k surety bond (BMC-84/85). MCS-150 not required (no fleet).

Freight forwarder

FF authority + $75k bond + BOC-3. MCS-150 not required (no trucks).

Private carrier

Active USDOT + MCS-150 + safety. No operating authority / for-hire / insurance filing required (hauls its own goods).

Crashes are scaled, not flat

Crash history is proportional. We don't apply a flat penalty, we scale it to (a) crashes per vehicle in the fleet and (b) the share of those crashes that were fatal. So a big, safe fleet barely moves; a small fleet with many (and fatal) crashes takes a large hit.

0 pts deductedscaled by rate & severityup to −28 pts

Low end

50,000 vehicles + 1 crash → ~0 pts. A huge fleet with very few crashes per vehicle is almost untouched.

High end

5 vehicles + 3 crashes incl. fatal → large deduction (near the −28 cap). Many crashes per truck, fatal-heavy.

Mechanics: deduction is capped at 28 points, weighted roughly 60% on crashes-per-vehicle and 40% on the fatal ratio. Zero crashes = zero deduction. If fleet size is unknown, only crash severity can move the score (conservative).

Out-of-service rate vs. the national average

Driver and vehicle out-of-service rates are measured against the FMCSA national average, not a flat number. A company only takes the deduction when it sits above the national benchmark, for example “Vehicle OOS 37% vs national avg 20.7%”.

Point reference, the full menu

Every factor and exactly how many points it can remove. Knockout factors (they also fail Verification) are marked.

Factor	Points
USDOT / authority not active with FMCSA knockout	−25
Missing operating authority (when required) knockout	−15
No insurance or surety bond on file (when required) knockout	−25
Unsatisfactory safety rating knockout	−30
Conditional safety rating	−12
MCS-150 biennial update overdue (carriers)	−10
Crashes, rate-adjusted (per-vehicle & fatal share)	0 to −28
Driver OOS rate above national average	−5
Vehicle OOS rate above national average	−5
Very new carrier (under 1 year)	−10
Limited operating history (1-3 years)	−6
Moderate operating history (3-5 years)	−3
Operating history unknown	−3
No public phone number	−3
No public email address	−2

All inputs come from public FMCSA records (operating authority, insurance/bond filings, the SAFER/SMS safety profile, crash & inspection reports). If FMCSA updates a record, the score updates with it. For the full deduction table, see the methodology page.

NORTH SHORE TRANSIT INC

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Cargo Transported

Operation Classification

SMS BASIC Scores

Mileage

Drivers

Safety Summary

Insurance

Quick Facts

Safety & Inspection Data

Safety Trends by Year

Out-of-Service Summary Last 24 months

Crash Records (2)

Roadside Violations by Safety Category Last 24 months

Inspection Records (3)

Safety Performance Percentiles

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