Carrier profile · USDOT 965457 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Black Hawk Waste Disposal Company Inc

26 power unitsavg 20.9 yrLocal · 2 statesWATERLOO, IA62/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED CONDITIONAL
Verified linksblackhawkwaste.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 · vs national

Vehicle OOS 84.6%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 15.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 26 vehicle and 65 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

80.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 5.4 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

65 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jun '25 · 11

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 26-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
26
Inspections · 24 mo
65
Annualized
≈33 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

67%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
16%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
80%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
84%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
98%
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 Driving134 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance35 · 25 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance28 · 6 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness7 · 7 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Aug 14, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 43 total · 1 in 24 mo

43
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
4
Fatal
18
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251011
20241001
20231011
20224014
20213003
20201111
20181001
20172102
20164033
20152002
20144024
20131001
20123022
20112002
20103022
20071001
20063113
20052022
20041101
20031011
20022012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Sep 19, 2025IA01Yes
Apr 10, 2024IA00Yes
Aug 23, 2023IA01Yes
Oct 13, 2022IA00Yes
Aug 29, 2022IA00Yes
Apr 28, 2022IA00Yes
Feb 11, 2022IA02Yes
Nov 29, 2021IA00Yes
Aug 25, 2021IA00Yes
Feb 11, 2021IA00Yes
Nov 12, 2020IA11Yes
Aug 2, 2018IA00Yes
Dec 28, 2017IA00Yes
May 10, 2017IA10Yes
Dec 13, 2016IA01No
Jun 15, 2016IA01Yes
May 13, 2016IA00Yes
May 5, 2016IA01Yes
Aug 20, 2015IA00Yes
Mar 6, 2015IA00Yes
Dec 19, 2014IA00Yes
May 28, 2014IA00Yes
May 2, 2014IA01Yes
Jan 9, 2014IA01Yes
Nov 6, 2013IA00Yes