Carrier profile · USDOT 2359315 · MC-1349765 · Updated Aug 9, 2026

Central Iowa Towing and Recovery Inc

88 power unitsavg 6.6 yrRegional · 6 statesAMES, IA74/100
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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 42.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 14 vehicle and 35 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 12.7 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

34 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 3

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 88-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
88
Inspections · 24 mo
35
Annualized
≈18 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

40%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
43%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
85%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
56%
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 Driving51 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS
  • 392.8 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.130 Cargo securement — heavy vehicles/equipmentVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Feb 2, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 31 total · 15 in 24 mo

31
Total crashes
15
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20265025
20259009
20242002
20232011
20216016
20202002
20195015
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 10, 2026IA02Yes
Jul 10, 2026IA00Yes
Jul 4, 2026IA00Yes
Apr 7, 2026IA00Yes
Mar 15, 2026IA01Yes
Dec 1, 2025IA00Yes
Aug 14, 2025IA00Yes
Mar 5, 2025IA00Yes
Mar 5, 2025IA00Yes
Mar 5, 2025IA00Yes
Mar 5, 2025IA00Yes
Mar 5, 2025IA00Yes
Mar 5, 2025IA00Yes
Feb 5, 2025IA00Yes
Nov 18, 2024IA00Yes
Feb 24, 2024IA00Yes
Oct 6, 2023IA00Yes
Sep 5, 2023IA01No
Nov 13, 2021IA00Yes
Nov 11, 2021IA00Yes
Sep 3, 2021IA00Yes
Aug 30, 2021IA01Yes
Jul 17, 2021IA00Yes
Jun 30, 2021IA00Yes
Jul 1, 2020IA00Yes