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INFOMAX CONSULTING

FMCSA-Registered Compliance Consultants · MOTUS-Registered · Naperville, IL

Pass your next DOT audit.Lower your CSA score.Defend every record.

We've prepared 300+ motor carriers for FMCSA audits and defended their records on DataQ. Real consultants. Named ex-auditors. No retainers we don't earn.

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By the numbers

The record we've built across 17 years of carrier compliance.

  • Motor carriers served

    300+

    cumulative engagements

  • Audit pass rate

    96%

    FMCSA + state safety reviews

  • Years in practice

    17+

    Naperville office since 2009

  • Office of record

    IL

    serving all 50 states

Accreditations

We work against the regulations FMCSA reviewers grade carriers on.

Documented controls, signed records, audit-defensible trail — built to the same rule books our clients are inspected against.

Aligned with

  • FMCSA
  • DOT
  • NHTSA
  • BTS
  • Bluewire

Practice areas

One regulatory lifecycle. Five pressure points.

“Every program corroborates the next under inspection — so a single record can't collapse the rest.”

The engagement

Four stages, one documented record.

Every engagement leaves behind a written record of what we found, what we did, and what we measured. The deliverable is the trail, not the deck.

  1. Stage 01

    Diagnostic

    We pull your record from FMCSA SAFER, your CSA from SMS Public, and your inspection history from MCMIS. Two-week diagnostic produces a written gap report keyed to specific 49 CFR Parts — not a generic safety culture critique.

  2. Stage 02

    Remediation plan

    Each gap gets a 30 / 60 / 90-day remediation step with a named owner, a deliverable, and a measurable outcome. You see what we will do — and what success looks like — before any retainer signs.

  3. Stage 03

    Execution

    DataQ filings, DQ-file rebuilds, drug-and-alcohol program corrections, training rollout through the InfoMax portal, audit-prep dossiers. We ship deliverables on schedule; you sign off on each.

  4. Stage 04

    Standing watch

    Quarterly cadence: new violations get worked into the plan, new regs get translated into your policy. The relationship is documented from day one so renewal — or graduation — is your call, not ours.

CASE FILE · ANONYMIZED · MIDWEST LTL

Six months from intervention threshold to audit-cleared.

A 120-unit Midwest LTL carrier reached us with the Unsafe Driving BASIC at 78 — well above the intervention threshold for fleets its size — and a focused HOS audit already on the docket. Three of their top shippers had quietly stopped tendering.

Situation

Two-track exposure: an active FMCSA investigation, and a commercial relationship with major shippers eroding in real time as those shippers pulled SMS Public reports during routine carrier qualification.

Intervention

In the first 30 days we rebuilt 47 driver qualification files to current Part 391 standards, filed 9 DataQ challenges against inaccurate inspection records, and instituted a roadside-inspection coaching cadence keyed to the BASICs that mattered most.

Outcome

Audit closed without a downgrade. Unsafe Driving BASIC fell from 78 to 41 across the next two SMS cycles. Two of three shippers returned to active tendering within the same quarter.

Read the full case study

Training Portal

Where the advice gets executed.

Consulting recommends. The training portal delivers — FMCSA-aligned driver training, AVLT proficiency testing, certificate issuance, and signed completion records routed back to the driver qualification file. One integrated record, not two parallel systems.

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Fleet manager reviewing training completion records

Portal

training.infomaxci.com

Driver training · Proficiency testing · Certificate library · DQ-file integration